A companion to Byzantine epistolography
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A companion to Byzantine epistolography
(Brill's companions to the Byzantine world, v. 7)
Brill, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography introduces and contextualizes the culture of Byzantine letter-writing from various socio-historical, material and literary angles. While this culture was long regarded as an ivory-tower pastime of intellectual elites, the eighteen essays in this volume, authored by leading experts in the field, show that epistolography had a vital presence in many areas of Byzantine society, literature and art. The chapters offer discussions of different types of letters and intersections with non-epistolary genres, their social functions as media of communication and performance, their representations in visual and narrative genres, and their uses in modern scholarship. The volume thus contributes to a more nuanced understanding of letter-writing in the Byzantine Empire and beyond.
Contributors are: Thomas Johann Bauer, Alexander Beihammer, Floris Bernard, Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis, Carolina Cupane, Niels Gaul, Cecily J. Hilsdale, Sofia Kotzabassi, Florin Leonte, Divna Manolova, Stratis Papaioannou, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Alexander Riehle, Jack Tannous, Lena Wahlgren-Smith.
Table of Contents
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Byzantine Epistolography: a Historical and Historiographical Sketch
Alexander Riehle
Part 1: Contexts for Byzantine Epistolography
1 Letter Writing in Antiquity and Early Christianity
Thomas Johann Bauer
2 Syriac Epistolography
Jack Tannous
3 Letter Collections in the Latin West
Lena Wahlgren-Smith
Part 2: Byzantine Letter-Writers in Context
4 Michael Psellos
Floris Bernard
5 The Letters of Demetrios Kydones
Florin Leonte
Part 3: Forms and Functions of Byzantine Epistolography
6 Epistolography and Rhetoric
Sofia Kotzabassi
7 Epistolography and Diplomatics
Alexander Beihammer
8 Didacticism in Byzantine Epistolography
Florin Leonte
9 Epistolography and Philosophy
Divna Manolova
10 Epistolary Culture and Friendship
Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis
11 Epistolary Communication: Rituals and Codes
Floris Bernard
12 The Epistolographic Self
Stratis Papaioannou
13 The Letter in the Theatron: Epistolary Voice, Character, and Soul (and Their Audience)
Niels Gaul
14 Letters and Letter Exchange in Byzantine Art
Cecily J. Hilsdale
15 Letters in Narrative Literature
Carolina Cupane
Part 4: Byzantine Epistolography and (Post-)Modern Theory
16 Letters and Network Analysis
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
17 Letters and New Philology
Alexander Riehle
General Bibliography
Index
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