| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 536 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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Brill's companions to the Byzantine world ; volume 1 |
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Brill's companions to the Byzantine world ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Medieval Fictional Story-Telling in the Eastern Mediterranean (8th-15th centuries AD): Historical and Cultural Context; part 1; Of Love and Other Adventures ; Chapter 1; Mapping the Roots: The Novel in Antiquity ; Massimo Fusillo; Chapter 2; Romantic Love in Rhetorical Guise: The Byzantine Revival of the Twelfth Century; Ingela Nilsson; Chapter 3; In the Mood of Love: Love Romances in Medieval Persian Poetry and their Sources; Julia Rubanovich; Chapter 4; In the Realm of Eros: The Late Byzantine Vernacular Romance |
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Carolina CupaneChapter 5; The Adaptations of Western Sources by Byzantine Vernacular Romances; Kostas Yiavis; part 2; Ancient and New Heroes ; Chapter 6; A Hero Without Borders: 1 Alexander the Great in Ancient, Byzantine and Modern Greek Tradition; Ulrich Moennig; Chapter 7; A Hero Without Borders: 2 Alexander the Great in the Syriac and Arabic Tradition; Faustina C.W. Doufikar-Aerts; Chapter 8; A Hero Without Borders: 3 Alexander the Great in the Medieval Persian Tradition; Julia Rubanovich; Chapter 9; Tales of the Trojan War: Achilles and Paris in Medieval Greek Literature |
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Renata LavagniniChapter 10; Shared Spaces: 1 Digenis Akritis, the Two-Blood Border Lord; Corinne Jouanno; Chapter 11; Shared Spaces: 2 Cross-border Warriors in the Arabian Folk Epic; Claudia Ott ; part 3; Wise Men and Clever Beasts ; Chapter 12; The Literary Life of a Fictional Life: Aesop in Antiquity and Byzantium; Grammatiki A. Karla; Chapter 13; Secundus the Silent Philosopher in the Ancient and Eastern Tradition; Oliver Overwien; Chapter 14; Fighting with Tales: 1 The Arabic Book of Sindbad the Philosopher; Bettina Krönung |
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Chapter 15; Fighting with Tales: 2 The Byzantine Book of Syntipas the Philosopher*Ida Toth; Chapter 16; From the Desert to the Holy Mountain: The Beneficial Story of Barlaam and Ioasaph; Robert Volk; Chapter 17; The Wisdom of the Beasts: The Arabic Book of Kalīla and Dimna and the Byzantine Book of Stephanites and Ichnelates; Bettina Krönung; part 4; Between Literacy and Orality: Audience and Reception of Fictional Literature ; Chapter 18; "I grasp, oh, artist, your enigma, I grasp your drama": Reconstructing the Implied Audience of the Twelfth-Century Byzantine Novel*; Panagiotis Roilos |
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Chapter 19; "Let me tell you a wonderful tale": Audience and Reception of the Vernacular RomancesCarolina Cupane; General Bibliography; General Index |
| Summary |
This volume offers an overview of the rich narrative material circulating in the medieval Mediterranean. As a multilingual and multicultural zone, the Eastern Mediterranean offered a broad market for tales in both oral and written form and longer works of fiction, which were translated and reworked in order to meet the tastes and cultural expectations of new audiences, thus becoming common intellectual property of all the peoples around the Mediterranean shores. Among others, the volume examines for the first time popular eastern tales, such as Kalila and Dimna, Sindbad, Barlaam and Joasaph, and Arabic epics together with their Byzantine adaptations. Original Byzantine love romances, both learned and vernacular, are discussed together with their Persian counterparts and with later adaptations of western stories. This combination of such disparate narrative material aims to highlight both the wealth of medieval storytelling and the fundamental unity of the medieval Mediterranean world. Contributors are Carolina Cupane, Faustina Doufikar-Aerts, Massimo Fusillo, Corinne Jouanno, Grammatiki A. Karla, Bettina Krönung, Renata Lavagnini, Ulrich Moennig, Ingela Nilsson, Claudia Ott, Oliver Overwien, Panagiotis Roilos, Julia Rubanovich, Ida Toth, Robert Volk and Kostas Yiavis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 30, 2020) |
| Subject |
Byzantine literature -- Mediterranean Region -- History and criticism
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Fiction, Medieval -- History and criticism
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- History
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Byzantine literature
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Civilization -- Foreign influences
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature
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Fiction, Medieval
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Mediterranean Region -- Civilization -- Foreign influences
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| Subject |
Mediterranean Region
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cupane, Carolina, editor.
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Krönung, Bettina, editor.
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| LC no. |
2016036782 |
| ISBN |
9789004307728 |
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9004307729 |
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