1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461330403321

Autore

Paul, the Silentiary, <6th cent.>

Titolo

Descriptio Sanctae Sophiae [[electronic resource] ] : Descriptio ambonis / / Pavlvs Silentiarivs ; edidit Clavdio De Stefani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : De Gruyter, c2011

ISBN

1-283-16580-5

9786613165800

3-11-023907-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, , 1864-399X

Altri autori (Persone)

De StefaniClaudio

Paul, the Silentiary,  <6th cent.>

Disciplina

881/.02

Soggetti

Greek poetry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Greco antico

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Critical edition.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- HOC VOLVMINE CONTINENTVR -- Praefatio -- Conspectus siglorum -- Conspectus librorum -- Descriptio Sanctae Sophiae -- Descriptio Ambonis -- Codicis Palatini ortographia et menda leviora -- Index locorum similium et in apparatu laudatorum -- Index verborum

Sommario/riassunto

The two poems Descriptio S. Sophiae and Descriptio Ambonis of Paul the Silentiary, composed for the inauguration (562 AD) of the church of St. Sophia (Istanbul) after its partial rebuilding, are an invaluable source for the history of Byzantine arts and a beautiful piece of late Greek poetry. Silentiary's poems respectively describe the church and its (now lost) pulpit. The Descriptio S. Sophiae also contains a lavish praise of emperor Justinian and of the patriarch Eutichius. De Stefani's edition is based on a collation of the witness of the text, Heid. Pal. gr. 23, and takes into account all previous bibliography. Some corrupted passages of the poems have been emendated, the few false readings still present in the text printed by the last, authoritative editor, P. Friedländer (1912), have been corrected.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777717903321

Autore

Walvin James

Titolo

An African's life : the life and times of Olaudah Equiano, 1745-1797 / / James Walvin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Cassell, c1998

ISBN

1-282-30996-X

9786612309960

1-4411-2030-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xv, 205 pages) : illustrations

Collana

The Black Atlantic

Disciplina

305.5/67/092

B

Soggetti

Enslaved persons

Slavery - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Discovering Equiano; Part One: From Africa to Slavery; Part Two: Varieties of Slavery; Part Three: An English Life; Part Four: Public Figure; Part Five: Afterwards; Guide to Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a prominent African in late 18th-century Britain, is quoted, anthologized and interpreted in dozens of books and articles. More than any single contemporary, Equiano speaks for the fate of millions of Africans in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. This study attempts to create a rounded portrait of the man behind the literary image, and to study Equiano in the context of Atlantic slavery.