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A New Book on Byzantine Literature: Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry, 1025-1081
A new volume on middle Byzantine poetry was recently published at Oxford University Press: Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry, 1025-1081 , by Floris Bernard. Here is the abstract: In the mid eleventh century, secular poetry attained a hitherto unseen degree of wit, vividness, and personal involvement, chiefly exemplified in the poetry of Christophoros Mitylenaios, Ioannes Mauropous, and Michael Psellos. This book examines the various social occasions, opportunities, and constraints that motivated and influenced the reading and writing of poetic texts. It critically reconsiders modern assumptions about poetry, focusing instead on Byzantine conceptions of the role of poetry in society. By providing a detailed account of the various media through which poetry was presented to its readers, and by tracing the initial circulation of poems, it takes an interest in the Byzantine reader and his/her reading habits and strategies, addressing aspects of performance and visual re...
Byzantine Gardens in Monasteries
An interesting and detailed article about a topic good for those who enjoy spending time in a garden: Byzantine Monastic Horticulture:The Textual Evidence, by A.-M. Talbot From the introduction: There is a paucity of evidence on Byzantine gardens, both textual and archaeological. Whenwe turn to monastic horticulture, however, the situation is somewhat less bleak, for bothfoundation documents (typika) and saints’ lives shed occasional light on the gardens, vineyards,and orchards that provided food, drink, and eucharistic wine for the use of the residentmonks or nuns. The surviving textual sources should ideally be supplemented by thefindings of archaeological excavation of actual monastic gardens. Such excavation, whichhas been carried out to date primarily in the late Roman monasteries of Palestine, can onlybe touched upon in this essay, in which I focus on the literary evidence. For the most part Ilimit my observations to those gardens situated in the immediate vicinity of mon...
The translation of the Suda Lexikon, a 10th c Byzantine encyclopedia, completed
The Suda Lexikon, a great source for the study of Classics and of the Byzantine literary culture, dating from the 10th c., the golden age of the Byzantine Empire, is very close to having a complete online English version. Click here to visit the project webpage
Loeb Classical Library Is Going Digital
The venerable collection of classical authors will have a digital version in a few months. Founded by James Loeb in 1911, the mission of Loeb Classical Library® has always been to make Classical Greek and Latin literature accessible to the broadest range of readers. The Digital Loeb Classical Library extends this mission into the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press is honored to renew James Loeb’s vision of accessibility, and presents an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire Greek and Latin Classical heritage is represented here with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and el...
The latest issue of Byzantinische Zeitschrift goes online
Latest issue of Byzantinische Zeitschrift to browse here
New Byzantine texts added to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Project
New Byzantine texts have been added on Thesaurus Linguae Graecae platform. Here is the list: 0082 APOLLONIUS DYSCOLUS Gramm. (2 works) 2042 ORIGENES Theol. (1 work) 2873 EUSTRATIUS Presbyter Scr. Eccl. (1 work) 2921 THEODORUS Spudaeus Scr. Eccl. (1 work) 2938 GERMANUS II Scr. Eccl. (2 works) 2944 LEO VI SAPIENS Imperator Phil., Scr. Eccl. et Poeta (1 work) 3077 MICHAEL I CERULARIUS Scr. Eccl. et Theol. (1 work) 3079 Michael ATTALIATES Hist. (1 work) 3092 Nicephorus BLEMMYDES Phil. et Theol. (4 works) 3169 Joannes VI CANTACUZENUS (2 works) 3191 Theodorus METOCHITES Phil. et Polyhist. (2 works) 3197 Demetrius CYDONES Theol., Transl. et Philol. (1 work) 3213 Prochorus CYDONES Theol. et Transl. (1 work) 3217 Nilus CABASILAS Theol. (2 works) 3248 Joannes CYPARISSIOTES Theol. (1 work) 3257 David DISHYPATUS Theol. (1 work) 3345 CALLISTUS I Patriarcha Scr. Eccl. et Orat. (3 works) 3346 Andreas CHRYSOBERGES Theol. (1 work) 4146 Maximus PLANUDES Polyhist...