02913nam 22006254a 450 991095558900332120251116151837.01-280-46726-697866104672661-4237-1206-490-474-0201-4(CKB)1000000000033025(EBL)253602(OCoLC)474872975(SSID)ssj0000116546(PQKBManifestationID)11991672(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116546(PQKBWorkID)10036432(PQKB)11753016(MiAaPQ)EBC253602(Au-PeEL)EBL253602(CaPaEBR)ebr10090542(CaONFJC)MIL46726(OCoLC)191935795(EXLCZ)99100000000003302520030303d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrByzantine authors literary activities and preoccupations : text and translations dedicated to the memory of Nicolas Oikonomides /edited by John W. Nesbitt1st ed.Leiden ;Boston Brill20031 online resource (298 p.)The Medieval Mediterranean ;v. 49Description based upon print version of record.90-04-12975-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-277) and index.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 VIIChapter Eight A Byzantine Instructional Manual on Siege Defense: The De Obsidione toleranda. Introduction, English Translation and AnnotationsBibliography; IndexIn 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.Medieval Mediterranean ;v. 49.Byzantine prose literatureTranslations into EnglishByzantine prose literature888/.020808Oikonomidès Nicolas161931Nesbitt John W204911MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955589003321Byzantine authors4533940UNINA