Epistulae
This is the first critical edition of the 520 letters of Michael Psellos, based on approximately 40 medieval Greek manuscripts. Psellos (11th c., Constantinople) is a well-known figure among students of Byzantine culture. A recent survey recorded 1176 Psellian texts, approximately 1790 medieval and...
Shranjeno v:
| Glavni avtor: | |
|---|---|
| Drugi avtorji: | |
| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Jezik: | Grec ancien |
| Izdano: |
Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter
2019.
Berlin ; Boston : |
| Teme: | |
| Online dostop: | Accès sur la plateforme de l'éditeur Accès sur la plateforme ISTEX Accès Université d'Orléans |
| Sporočilo: |
De Gruyter e-books Corpus Sciences de l'Antiquité (Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Epistulae, Michael Psellus, 2019, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2 vol. (CLXXXV-1207 p.), Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, 978-3-11-062201-0 |
| Izvleček: | This is the first critical edition of the 520 letters of Michael Psellos, based on approximately 40 medieval Greek manuscripts. Psellos (11th c., Constantinople) is a well-known figure among students of Byzantine culture. A recent survey recorded 1176 Psellian texts, approximately 1790 medieval and early modern manuscripts with one or more of these texts, and ca. 1300 bibliographical items, from 1497 to the year 2000. Psellos also figures in modern non-academic writing: in Renaissance novels, in Seferis, Auden, and others. Psellos is thus arguably among the most prolific and popular medieval Greek authors. The appeal is no accident. Psellos wrote about nearly every subject and in just about every Byzantine genre. His philosophical texts and lectures are invaluable sources of Byzantine knowledge. The rhetorical writings, such as speeches, histories, and, most importantly, the letters edited here offer us glimpses into the lives of well-known but also everyday Byzantines. Psellos letter-collection is, after all, one of the finest specimens of this popular Byzantine genre. It sheds light to networks of Constantinopolitan ruling elite, and, most importantly, habits of literary imagination as well as typologies of self |
|---|---|
| Opis knjige/članka: | De Gruyter e-books Corpus Sciences de l'Antiquité (Licence nationale) |
| Format: | Nécessite un navigateur et un lecteur de fichier PDF |
| ISBN: | 9783110625011 (PDF) |
| Dostop: | Conditions particulières de réutilisation pour les bénéficiaires des licences nationales. https://www.licencesnationales.fr/degruyter-ebooks-antiquite-cctp-ln-2020/ Accès en ligne pour les établissements français bénéficiaires des licences nationales Accès soumis à abonnement pour tout autre établissement |