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UNINA9910808898803321 |
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Cananus Joannes <active 15th century.> |
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Ioannis Canani de Constantinopolitana obsidione relatio : a critical edition, with english translation, introduction, and notes of John Kananos' account of the Siege of Constantinople in 1422 / / edited by Andreas Massimo Cuomo |
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Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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1-5015-0290-5 |
1-5015-0288-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (182 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Byzantinisches Archiv, , 1864-9785 ; ; Band 30 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Military art and science |
Istanbul (Turkey) History Early works to 1800 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Works cited in abbreviation -- 1. Introduction -- 2.1 The Manuscripts -- 2.2 Ratio Edendi. The present edition -- 2.3 Punctuation -- 2.4 Apparatus -- 2.5 The language of Kananos: An overview -- Critical edition and English translation -- Thesaurus -- Plates |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume fills the need for a new critical edition and linguistic study of John Kananos' account of the siege of Constantinople in 1422. New research on the manuscripts has produced a new stemma codicum and shown that the oldest witness of this narrative, Vat. gr. 579 (ff. 355r - 364v), was written in Constantinople and belonged to the prolific scribe Phlamules Kontostephanos, who also provided the copy with a title in which the name of John Kananos is mentioned for the first time. The philological approach adopted here explains contradictions among the manuscripts and Kananos' peculiar vernacularisms and reveals a surprisingly realistic and elaborate Greek. The accompanying English translation, a chapter on the language of Kananos, and a complete thesaurus make this volume a valuable contribution to the study of late Byzantine literature. |
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