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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955589003321

Titolo

Byzantine authors : literary activities and preoccupations : text and translations dedicated to the memory of Nicolas Oikonomides / / edited by John W. Nesbitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2003

ISBN

1-280-46726-6

9786610467266

1-4237-1206-4

90-474-0201-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Collana

The Medieval Mediterranean ; ; v. 49

Altri autori (Persone)

OikonomidèsNicolas

NesbittJohn W

Disciplina

888/.020808

Soggetti

Byzantine prose literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-277) and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; Preface; Chapter One  Cosmological Confectionary and Equal opportunity in the Eleventh Century. An Ekphrasis by Christopher of Mitylene (Poem 42); Chapter Two  Two Teaching Texts from the Twelfth-Century Orphanotropheion; Chapter Three  Alexander the Monk's Text of Helena's Discovery of the Cross (BHG 410); Chapter Four  Elias the Monk. Friend of Psellos; Chapter Five  Five Miracles of St. Menas; Chapter Six  Elias of Heliopolis. The Life of an Eighth-Century Syrian Christian Saint; Chapter Seven  Two Military Orations of Constantine VII

Chapter Eight  A Byzantine Instructional Manual on Siege Defense: The De Obsidione toleranda. Introduction, English Translation and AnnotationsBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In honouring the memory of Nicolas Oikonomides, the contributors to this work offer a group of Greek texts and translations which reflect the wide interests of Byzantine authors and the varied genres to which they devoted their talents. It includes the military speeches of Constantine VII.