series: Byzantinisches Archiv

Published by De Gruyter

Byzantinisches Archiv

Als Ergänzung zur Byzantinischen Zeitschrift

Edited by: Albrecht Berger
Founded by: Karl Krumbacher

ISSN: 1864-9785

e-ISSN: 2366-7052

Overview
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Das Byzantinische Archiv ist die Begleitreihe der Byzantinischen Zeitschrift und umfasst sowohl Monographien als auch Sammelbände. Es bietet ein Forum für Editionen, Kommentare sowie vertiefende Studien zu Einzelaspekten aus dem Bereich der Byzantinistik. Literatur, Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte einschließlich der damit verbundenen Neben- und Randdisziplinen sind gleichermaßen vertreten.

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book: Nicola Mesarite, La Sedizione di Giovanni Comneno detto ‹il Grasso›

Book Ahead of Publication 2024

Nicola Mesarite, La Sedizione di Giovanni Comneno detto ‹il Grasso›

Introduzione, edizione critica, traduzione e note

Beatrice Daskas

Nicola Mesarite è protagonista di un momento di rottura per Bisanzio: il crollo dell’impero nelle mani dell’esercito della Quarta crociata (1204) e l’insediamento di un regime latino a Costantinopoli. Quale custode delle cappelle palatine visse in prima persona lo sconvolgimento. In questa tumultuosa congiuntura, con la sua attività di copista, contribuì inoltre a preservare dall’obliterazione l’essenza della produzione retorica dell’evo comneno. “La sedizione di Giovanni Comneno ‘il Grasso’”, resoconto del tentato colpo di stato ai danni di Alessio III Angelo, è un’opera ricca di intuizioni sulla transizione storica del tempo e una fonte sulla topografia della capitale bizantina al volgere del XII secolo. Il volume offre una nuova edizione critica del testo, corredata di traduzione italiana e di note di commento. Il volume si addentra inoltre in un'ampia esplorazione della biografia dell'autore, portandone alla luce aspetti inediti, tra cui la sua attività nella cancelleria imperiale e di copista. Tali aggiunte alla biografia di Mesarite consentono di valutarne appieno il contributo alle dinamiche storiche e intellettuali della sua epoca e di approfondire il contesto di elaborazione della sua opera.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111367408
ISBN:: 9783111367408
ISBN:: 9783111367613
ISBN:: 9783111344447
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die metrische Psalmenmetaphrase des Manuel Philes

Book Open Access 2024

Die metrische Psalmenmetaphrase des Manuel Philes

Einleitung, kritische Edition und Indices

Anna Gioffreda, Ugo Mondini, Andreas Rhoby

Volume 44 in this series

This book is the first comprehensive study on the psalm metaphrase by Byzantine poet Manuel Philes (fourteenth century) and contains the first critical edition of the entire text (about 3,500 verses). It arranges metaphrase and psalm text synoptically. An introduction and commentary provide a full examination of the manuscripts, their language, and Philes’s method of reworking the psalm text.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110796544
ISBN:: 9783110796544
ISBN:: 9783110793024
ISBN:: 9783110796650
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Poetics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kalligraphos – Essays on Byzantine Language, Literature and Palaeography

Book 2023

Kalligraphos – Essays on Byzantine Language, Literature and Palaeography

From Byzantine Historiography to Post-Byzantine Poetry

Alexander Alexakis, Dimitrios S. Georgakopoulos

Volume 42 in this series

The present volume is a Festschrift in honor of the distinguished scholar in Late Byzantine, post-Byzantine and Cretan Renaissance studies I. Mavromatis. The title Kalligraphos is indicative of the foundations of his scholarship, which lie in the fields of paleography and early printing. With manuscripts and early printed books as the primary material of his studies, Professor Mavromatis has produced several major works in the fields of Byzantine philology, Cretan Renaissance literature (especially Erotorcritos) and late Byzantine vernacular poetry. This volume includes a short preface and twenty-four articles by senior and younger scholars, former colleagues, collaborators, and students of Professor Mavromatis. The articles are loosely arranged in chronological order of their subject matter and treat issues ranging from Byzantine historiography going back to the 4th century CE to post-Byzantine Cretan poetry of the 17th century. This philological kaleidoscope features new editions and interpretations of hitherto unknown or little-known poems and texts. The volume is intended for scholars, graduate and undergraduate students and the general readership interested in Byzantine and post-Byzantine literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111010335
ISBN:: 9783111010335
ISBN:: 9783111012087
ISBN:: 9783111009810
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Anekdota Byzantina

Book 2023

Anekdota Byzantina

Studien zur byzantinischen Geschichte und Kultur. Festschrift für Albrecht Berger anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstags

Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann, Alexander Riehle, Raimondo Tocci, Martin Marko Vučetić

Volume 41 in this series

With over 50 contributions on written sources and archaeological finds, this volume offers numerous new editions and interpretations that expand our knowledge of Byzantium through the centuries and from different perspectives. Special emphasis is placed on topography, hagiography, edition philology, and art history, which at the same time reflect Albrecht Berger's various fields of research; this volume is dedicated to him.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111070315
ISBN:: 9783111070315
ISBN:: 9783111068329
ISBN:: 9783111070537
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Briefsammlungen des Nikephoros Chumnos

Book 2023

Die Briefsammlungen des Nikephoros Chumnos

Einleitung, Edition, Übersetzung

Alexander Riehle

Volume 43 in this series

The letter collections that the high-ranking court official Nikephoros Choumnos (c.1260–1327) compiled on the basis of his correspondence with the emperor, fellow intellectuals, clergymen and relatives, are an important testimony to the social and intellectual history of late Byzantium. They show how during this period of cultural revival and political crisis writers used letters not only as a medium for communication and networking within a small educated elite based primarily in Constantinople but also as a vehicle for self-representation through the publication of carefully curated manuscript collections.

The present book aims to make these different, yet closely intertwined layers of the 180 surviving letters of Nikephoros Choumnos accessible through a new critical edition with facing German translation. One of its main objectives is to present the individual collections the author commissioned as autonomous works of literary autobiography and to foreground textual fluidity on both the macrostructural level of the collections and the microstructural level of each letter. In addition to a short biography of the author, the introduction provides fundamental analyses of various aspects of the collections and of the individual letters preserved in them (transmission, formation and composition of the collections, prosopography, summaries with commentary, linguistic and literary elements), offers a detailed discussion of the orthography of the authorial manuscripts and explains the principles and methods applied in the edition and translation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514428
ISBN:: 9781614514428
ISBN:: 9781614516019
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Medieval History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Heiligenenkomien des Nikolaos Kabasilas

Book 2021

Die Heiligenenkomien des Nikolaos Kabasilas

Einleitung und kritische Edition

Christina Hadjiafxenti

Volume 40 in this series

This volume examines the hagiographic works of Nicholas Kabasilas, a major fourteenth-century theologian from Thessalonica. The 16 manuscripts that transmit his encomium have been transcribed, collated, and carefully investigated, in order to reconstitute the manuscript transmission and prepare of a modern critical edition that enables important inferences.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110711561
ISBN:: 9783110711561
ISBN:: 9783110711486
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Bibliophilos

Book 2021

Bibliophilos

Books and Learning in the Byzantine World

Charalambos Dendrinos, Ilias Giarenis

Volume 39 in this series

The present volume is a Festschrift in honour of the distinguished Byzantinist Costas N. Constantinides. The title of the volume, Bibliophilos: Books and Learning in the Byzantine World, reflects Professor Constantinides’ major contribution to the fields of Greek palaeography, editions of Byzantine texts, Byzantine history, scholarship and education, and Cypriot manuscripts and culture. The volume is introduced by a preface and a tabula gratulatoria dedicated to the honorand, followed by twenty articles, written by seasoned and younger scholars, who are former colleagues and students of Professor Constantinides. These articles, which appear in alphabetical order, offer new material and shed fresh light to the study of Greek manuscripts, binders and scribes, and the life, works and activities of Byzantine scholars, teachers and students, providing editions of unpublished texts, including letters and poems, and exploring various aspects of Byzantine and Cypriot history, literature, art, science and culture. In the process the authors often challenge earlier views and offer new interpretations and insights. Bibliophilos is a book for the student, teacher and scholar of Byzantium in particular, and for every bibliophile in general.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110718492
ISBN:: 9783110718492
ISBN:: 9783110717099
ISBN:: 9783110718546
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die enkomiastische Dichtung des Manuel Philes

Book 2020

Die enkomiastische Dichtung des Manuel Philes

Form und Funktion des literarischen Lobes in der frühen Palaiologenzeit

Krystina Kubina

Volume 38 in this series

This book examines the work of Manuel Philes, the most prominent Byzantine poet of the fourteenth century. The book analyzes a range of encomiastic (i.e. written in praise) poetry dedicated to members of the Constantinople elite. The works are studied from the perspective of their composition (genre, motifs, techniques), socio-cultural context (production and reception), and functions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110634839
ISBN:: 9783110634839
ISBN:: 9783110635492
ISBN:: 9783110633887
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Episteme und Ästhetik der Raummodellierung in Literatur und Kunst des Theodoros Metochites

Book 2020

Episteme und Ästhetik der Raummodellierung in Literatur und Kunst des Theodoros Metochites

Ein frühpalaiologischer Byzantiner im Bezug zur Frühen Neuzeit

Markos Kermanidis

Volume 37 in this series

This volume addresses the literary and aesthetic work of Theodore Metochites. It focuses on the “Miscellanea” and “Ethics or on Education,” the panegyrics on Nikaia (the exile capital) and Constantinople, along with the reconfiguration of the Chora Church. It takes into account Byzantine spatial representations as well as interdisciplinary relationships of the early Palaiologos period to the declining Western Late Middle Ages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110643916
ISBN:: 9783110643916
ISBN:: 9783110641899
ISBN:: 9783110640625
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Les Grâces à Athènes

Book 2019

Les Grâces à Athènes

Éloge d’un gouverneur byzantin par Nikolaos Kataphlôron

Marina Loukaki

Volume 36 in this series

The only known work of Nikolaos Kataphloron, an eminent orator and teacher in 12th century Constantinople, has so far remained mostly unpublished. This book presents its first full critical edition commented and translated into French, with Introduction and Indices. The text is a masterpiece of Comnenian rhetoric; the author, through the praise of a Byzantine aristocrat governor residing in Athens, without deviating from the regulatory framework of the genre, raises issues of rhetoric and political theory, philosophical reflection, social behavior and ethics, literary and self-criticism. More over, he composes and integrates various rhetorical genres, exemplary laudatory pieces for different types of men, women and circumstances, in a high and elaborate style, with a multitude of quotes or indirect references to texts of Christian and pagan literature. This work seems to have functioned as a source of feed for any interested orator. In the Introduction and the footnotes, in addition to the Nikolaos Kataphloron biography, the questions about the recipient’s prosopography, the historical context in which the text was composed and its date, they are discussed issues related to the education, the rhetoric and more generally the literature of Comnenian era.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110634716
ISBN:: 9783110634716
ISBN:: 9783110633863
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Lehnwörter im Wortschatz der spätbyzantinischen historiographischen Literatur

Book Open Access 2018

Die Lehnwörter im Wortschatz der spätbyzantinischen historiographischen Literatur

Vratislav Zervan, Johannes Kramer, Claudia Römer, Michael Metzeltin, Bojana Pavlović, Andrea Massimo Cuomo

Volume 34 in this series

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This volume examines the loanwords found in 18 late-Byzantine histories and chronicles. In order to analyze the lexical interferences in the lexicon of late-Byzantine historical literature, all words were included (except place names and proper names) that substantiate language contact. The editors place special emphasis on the sociolinguistic context in which the loanwords were used.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110587678
ISBN:: 9783110587678
ISBN:: 9783110585452
ISBN:: 9783110585384
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Anonymi Chronicon

Book Ahead of Publication 2024

Anonymi Chronicon

Prolegomena, Erstedition, Übersetzung und Indices

Raimondo Tocci

Volume 33 in this series

Byzantine chronicles constitute together with histories the supreme discipline of Byzantine literature, i. e. historiography. They are undoubtedly an important vehicle of Byzantine ideology and the reassessment of their literariness is increasingly attracting attention by scholars working in the area of Byzantine historical writing. The present volume offers the editio princeps of a 10th-century anonymous short chronicle (Kurzchronik) which covers the period from Adam up to 976. The text draws mainly from the interpolated version of George the Monk’s chronicle – which belongs to the circle of the Logothetes’ chronicle –, and is preserved in two 15th-century manuscripts, Vat. Pal. gr. 369 and Vind. phil. gr. 333 (the latter, the only one to transmit the beginning of the chronicle, is newly discovered). The critical edition, complete with Prolegomena and Indexes, is accompanied by a German translation. Since most texts belonging to this subgenre of the Byzantine chronicle are still unpublished, this edition lays the groundwork for determining its position within the history of Byzantine literature, as well as its ideological and didactic function.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110545289
ISBN:: 9783110545289
ISBN:: 9783110544244
ISBN:: 9783110540628
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Les Épigrammes de Maxime Planude

Book 2017

Les Épigrammes de Maxime Planude

Introduction, édition critique, traduction française et annotation

Ilias Taxidis

Volume 32 in this series

This annotated critical edition presents the epigrams of the Byzantine scholar Maximus Planudes. Due to the absence of a critical edition of almost all Maximus Planudes’ epigrams as well as of a methodical commentary or a systematic review of their thematic, lexical, stylistic and metrical features, this study aims to elucidate the least recognised facet of the literary work of one of the most important scholar of the Palaiologan Renaissance.

L'étude contient l'édition critique ainsi que le commentaire methodique des épigrammes du moine érudit de la renaissance paléologue, Maxime Planude.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110528558
ISBN:: 9783110528558
ISBN:: 9783110527483
ISBN:: 9783110526257
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Koinotaton Doron

Book 2016

Koinotaton Doron

Das späte Byzanz zwischen Machtlosigkeit und kultureller Blüte (1204–1461)

Albrecht Berger, Sergei Mariev, Günter Prinzing, Alexander Riehle

Volume 31 in this series

The late Byzantine age, from the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the fall of the last independent Greek territories to the Ottomans in 1461, was not only a period of political decline, but also of intensive cultural activity. The essays assembled in this volume discuss the works and lives of various authors (Nikephoros and Theodoros Xanthopoulos, Theodoros Metochites, Nikephoros Gregoras and Manuel Philes), they investigate issues such as ancient Greek and contemporary Western influences on the literary production, and discuss themes of material culture and, with a clear focus on Constantinople, of social, administrative and economical history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110469851
ISBN:: 9783110469851
ISBN:: 9783110469714
ISBN:: 9783110469530
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Ioannis Canani de Constantinopolitana obsidione relatio

Book 2016

Ioannis Canani de Constantinopolitana obsidione relatio

A Critical Edition, with English Translation, Introduction, and Notes of John Kananos' Account of the Siege of Constantinople in 1422

Andrea Massimo Cuomo

Volume 30 in this series

This volume fills the need for a new critical edition and linguistic study of John Kananos' account of the siege of Constantinople in 1422. New research on the manuscripts has produced a new stemma codicum and shown that the oldest witness of this narrative, Vat. gr. 579 (ff. 355r - 364v), was written in Constantinople and belonged to the prolific scribe Phlamules Kontostephanos, who also provided the copy with a title in which the name of John Kananos is mentioned for the first time. The philological approach adopted here explains contradictions among the manuscripts and Kananos' peculiar vernacularisms and reveals a surprisingly realistic and elaborate Greek. The accompanying English translation, a chapter on the language of Kananos, and a complete thesaurus make this volume a valuable contribution to the study of late Byzantine literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502880
ISBN:: 9781501502880
ISBN:: 9781501510908
ISBN:: 9781501502903
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Myriobiblos

Book 2015

Myriobiblos

Essays on Byzantine Literature and Culture

Theodora Antonopoulou, Sofia Kotzabassi, Marina Loukaki

Volume 29 in this series

This volume presents a broad array of contributions on Byzantine literature and culture, in which well-known Byzantinists approach topics of ceremonial, education, historiography, hagiography, homiletics, law, philology, philosophy, prosopography, rhetoric and theology. New editions and analyses of texts and documents are included. The essays combine traditional scholarship with newer approaches, thus reflecting the current dynamics of the field.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501501562
ISBN:: 978-1-5015-1051-9
ISBN:: 978-1-5015-0156-2
ISBN:: 9781501501623
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature

Book 2014

The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature

Modes, Functions, and Identities

Aglae Pizzone

Volume 28 in this series

Author and authorship have become increasingly important concepts in Byzantine literary studies. This volume provides the first comprehensive survey on strategies of authorship in Middle Byzantine literature and investigates the interaction between self-presentation and cultural production in a wide array of genres, providing new insights into how Byzantine intellectuals conceived of their own work and pursuits.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614515197
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-711-5
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-519-7
ISBN:: 9781614519614
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Pantokrator Monastery in Constantinople

Book 2013

The Pantokrator Monastery in Constantinople

Sofia Kotzabassi

Volume 27 in this series

The Monastery of Pantokrator, founded by John II Komnenos and his wife Piroska-Irene, is not only one of the most important and most impressive monastic complexes of the Komnenian age, it is also one of the few to occupy a key position in the life of Constantinople in the Palaiologan age, given that its mortuary chapel (Heroon) was also the last resting place of many members of the latter dynasty. The first attempt to chronicle its history, based on the texts known at the time, was undertaken by G. Moravscik (1932). Interest was rekindled by P. Gautier’s critical edition of its Typikon (1971), and more recently by restoration work on its buildings.

This volume brings together a comprehensive selection of all the texts concerning or connected with the Monastery of Pantokrator, and through them it demonstrates the Monastery’s importance and its role throughout the history of the Byzantine Empire—a role that has received insufficient attention, given that older studies have tended to focus on the 12th century. The texts cover the situation in Constantinople before the Monastery was founded, the historical and cultural context within which it was established, its Typikon (monastic formulary), the descriptions of Slav and Western travellers, the Byzantine texts (homiletic, historical, hagiographic, and poetic) relating to the Monastery and its history from the 12th to the 15th century, the Byzantine officials associated with it, and the celebration of the principal festivals in its churches. It also contains critical editions of and commentaries on the two versions of the Synaxarion of Irene Komnene, a speech referring to the Empress’s associate in the construction of the Monastery, another on the translation of the icon of St. Demetrios from the Church of St. Demetrios in Thessalonica to the Monastery of Pantokrator, an Office of the Translation of the Holy Stone, the verse Synaxarion composed for the consecration of the Monastery, and the known and unpublished poems by Byzantine poets (12th-15th c.) relating to it, as well as an extensive bibliography.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514602
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-599-9
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-460-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Byzantine Alexander Poem

Book 2014

The Byzantine Alexander Poem

Willem J. Aerts

Volume 26 in this series

Among the many versions of the Alexander Romance originating from Alexandria (3rd century AD) the long Byzantine Alexander Poem takes a special place. It is transmitted in only one miscellaneous manuscript, Ms. Marcianus Graecus 408, and contains 6130 ‘political’ (fifteen-syllable) verses. This edition presents a new critical text of the Byzantine Alexander Poem with an introduction and an extensive commentary.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513070
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-530-2
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-307-0
ISBN:: 9781614518105
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Aesthetics and Theurgy in Byzantium

Book 2013

Aesthetics and Theurgy in Byzantium

Sergei Mariev, Wiebke-Marie Stock

Volume 25 in this series

The general scope of the present volume is to present a variety of approaches and topics within the growing field of research on Byzantine aesthetics. Theurgy in Neoplatonic and Christian contexts is represented by the contributions of W.-M. Stock and L. Bergemann; theories of beauty are at the centre of interest of the papers by S. Mariev and M. Marchetto. A. Pizzone approaches Byzantine aesthetics by looking for aesthetic experience in the literary texts, while the remaining contributions explore issues related to the iconoclast controversy: An important moment in the development of Byzantine philosophy on the eve of iconoclasm is the primary interest of A. del Campo Echevarría, who looks at the question of universals in John of Damaskos. The relationship between image and text in Byzantine illustrated manuscripts occupies the attention of B. Crostini. D. Afinogenov explores from a philological perspective the fate of important iconophile terminology in Old Bulgarian, while L. Lukhovitskij reconstructs from historical and philological perspectives the historical memory of the iconoclast controversy during the Late Byzantine Period.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512615
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-327-8
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-261-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Byzanzrezeption in Europa

Book 2012

Byzanzrezeption in Europa

Spurensuche über das Mittelalter und die Renaissance bis in die Gegenwart

Foteini Kolovou

Volume 24 in this series

This volume examines the effects of Byzantine culture on the rest of Europe, from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, Enlightenment, and up to the present time. The individual contributions cast a new light on different forms of encounter, adaptation, and impact, as well as the cultural clash. They investigate phenomena from literature, philosophy, theology, history, jurisprudence, music, and art, elucidating the ways in which the Byzantine Empire significantly shaped the development of Europe as a transmitter of the Greek, Roman, and Christian cultures.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110272253
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027206-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027225-3
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Greek
Subject:: Greek Language and Literature
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Medieval History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Codex Lesbiacus Leimonos 11

Book 2010

Codex Lesbiacus Leimonos 11

Annotated Critical Edition of an Unpublished Byzantine "Menaion" for June

Apostolos Spanos

Volume 23 in this series

The book is an annotated critical edition of an unpublished collection of hymnographical texts, preserved in the eleventh-century Greek manuscript 11 of the library of Leimonos monastery, Lesbos, Greece. This important codex is a Menaion for June comprising thirty akolouthiai on saints; nineteen of them are hitherto unpublished. The edition of the texts is accompanied by an introduction, a liturgical, palaeographical, and hymnographical commentary, appendices of unpublished hymns preserved in manuscripts other than Lesbiacus Leimonos 11, and indices.

The introduction examines codex Lesbiacus Leimonos 11 and its importance from a liturgical, hymnographical, and palaeographical perspective. It is divided into four chapters. The first presents the liturgical environment of the period from the ninth century, when most of the texts edited were composed, to the eleventh, when the production of the codex could be placed, and the liturgical books used in the period, the structure of the akolouthiai and the festal calendar of the Byzantine church. The second chapter deals with the content of the texts edited. Chapter Three presents briefly the life and the hymnographical work of the authors of the texts. The last chapter of the introduction is devoted to the manuscript tradition of the texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110221305
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022129-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022130-5
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Realia Byzantina

Book 2009

Realia Byzantina

Sofia Kotzabassi, Giannis Mavromatis

Volume 22 in this series

This volume combines twenty-six contributions on Byzantine literature in which well-known Byzantine scholars approach subjects from epistolography, historiography, hagiography, philology and prosopography. New editions of many of the texts and documents analysed are included.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110222319
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022230-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022231-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das hagiographische Dossier der heiligen Theodosia von Konstantinopel

Book 2009

Das hagiographische Dossier der heiligen Theodosia von Konstantinopel

Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar

Sofia Kotzabassi

Volume 21 in this series

Saint Theodosia of Constantinople enjoys a special place among the martyrs of the iconoclastic persecutions. Her cult reached its zenith under the Byzantine dynasty of the Palaiologoi (1259–1453), which is reflected not only in three rhetorical panegyrics in her honour, but also in historical works, poetry, hymnography, and in the travel journals of Russian pilgrims.
Kotzabassi provides a detailed analysis of and a commentary on these texts, as well as a critical edition based on all known manuscripts of the texts, some of which are published for the first time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219869
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021985-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021986-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Medieval Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Byzantinische Sprachkunst

Book 2007

Byzantinische Sprachkunst

Studien zur byzantinischen Literatur gewidmet Wolfram Hörandner zum 65. Geburtstag

Martin Hinterberger, Elisabeth Schiffer

Volume 20 in this series

Twenty articles on Byzantine literature written in honour of W. Hörandner by colleagues are contained in this volume. They focus on his research interests, in particular epigrams and the literature of the Comnenan period, as well as the history of literary motifs, rhetoric and questions of literary language. Several contributions include editions of texts. The articles are written in German, English, French and Italian.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918229
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019501-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091822-9
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Polypleuros nous

Book 2000

Polypleuros nous

Miscellanea für Peter Schreiner zu seinem 60. Geburtstag

Cordula Scholz, Georgios Makris, Herbert Hunger

Volume 19 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110959505
ISBN:: 9783110959505
ISBN:: 9783598777424
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies, other
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Medieval History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Disputationes graecae contra Iudaeos

Book 1999

Disputationes graecae contra Iudaeos

Untersuchungen zur byzantinischen antijüdischen Dialogsliteratur und ihrem Judenbild

Andreas Külzer

Volume 18 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110946291
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77741-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094629-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

book: Ignatios Diakonos und die Vita des Hl. Gregorios Dekapolites

Book 1997

Ignatios Diakonos und die Vita des Hl. Gregorios Dekapolites

Georgios Makris

Volume 17 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110953992
ISBN:: 978-3-598-77740-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095399-2
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Byzantine Studies
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: B. G. Teubner

book: Die Klosterkirche der Kosmosoteira in Bera (Vira)

Book 1985

Die Klosterkirche der Kosmosoteira in Bera (Vira)

Stefan Sinos

Volume 16 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112325827
ISBN:: 9783112325827
ISBN:: 9783112325810
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Theologie und Philosophie in Byzanz

Book 1977

Theologie und Philosophie in Byzanz

Der Streit um die theologische Methodik in der spätbyzantinischen Geistesgeschichte (14./15. Jh.), seine systematischen Grundlagen und seine historische Entwicklung

Gerhard Podskalsky

Volume 15 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112325865
ISBN:: 9783112325865
ISBN:: 9783112325858
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Kaiserliche Universität von Konstantinopel

Book Ahead of Publication 2023

Die Kaiserliche Universität von Konstantinopel

Präzisierungen zur Frage des höheren Schulwesens in Byzanz im 9. und 10. Jahrhundert

Paul Speck

Volume 14 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783112325803
ISBN:: 9783112325803
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Language of Romanos the Melodist

Book 1967

The Language of Romanos the Melodist

K. Mitsakis

Volume 11 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112325902
ISBN:: 9783112325902
ISBN:: 9783112325896
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Entstehung der byzantinischen Themenordnung

Book 1959

Die Entstehung der byzantinischen Themenordnung

Johannes Karayannopulos

Volume 10 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112325766
ISBN:: 9783112325766
ISBN:: 9783112325759
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die höheren Schulen von Konstantinopel im Mittelalter

Book 1926

Die höheren Schulen von Konstantinopel im Mittelalter

Friedrich Fuchs

Volume 8 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112325667
ISBN:: 9783112325667
ISBN:: 9783112325650
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Des Chrysippos von Jerusalem Enkōmion auf den hl. Theodōros Teron

Book 1921

Des Chrysippos von Jerusalem Enkōmion auf den hl. Theodōros Teron

Antonios Sigalas

Volume 7 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112325681
ISBN:: 9783112325681
ISBN:: 9783112325674
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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