The corpus of Palaiologan romances consists of about a dozen works of imaginative fiction from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries which narrate the trials and tribulations of aristocratic young lovers. This volume brings together leading scholars of Byzantine literature to examine the corpus afresh and aims to be the definitive work on the subject, suitable for scholars and students of all levels. It offers interdisciplinary and transnational approaches which demonstrate the aesthetic and cultural value of these works in their own right and their centrality to the medieval and early modern Greek, European and Mediterranean literary traditions. From a historical perspective, the volume also emphasizes how the romances represent a turning point in the history of Greek letters: they are a repository of both ancient and medieval oral poetic and novelistic traditions and yet are often considered the earliest works of Modern Greek literature.
Author(s): Adam J Goldwyn; Ingela Nilsson
Edition: ebook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 0
Tags: Medieval Europe - Literature; Byzantium - Literature; Byzantien Romance
Reading the Late Byzantine Romance
pp i-ii
Reading the Late Byzantine Romance - Title page
pp iii-iii
Copyright page
pp iv-iv
Contents
pp v-vi
Notes on Contributors
pp vii-x
Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii
Note on the Late Byzantine Romances and Their Editions
pp xiii-xx
Chapter 1 - An Introduction to the Palaiologan Romance
pp 1-18
Narrating The Vernacular
By Adam J. Goldwyn, Ingela Nilsson
Chapter 2 - The Categories of ‘Originals’ and ‘Adaptations’ in Late Byzantine Romance
pp 19-39
A Reassessment
By Kostas Yiavis
Chapter 3 - Intercultural Encounters in the Late Byzantine Vernacular Romance
pp 40-68
By Carolina Cupane
Chapter 4 - Dreams and Female Initiation in Livistros and Rhodamne and Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
pp 69-100
By Efthymia Priki
Chapter 5 - The Acculturation of the French Romance Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne in the Byzantine Imperios and Margarona
pp 101-124
By Romina Luzi
Chapter 6 - Chronotopes between East and West in Apollonios of Tyre
pp 125-143
By Francesca Rizzo Nervo
Chapter 7 - Linguistic Contacts in the Late Byzantine Romances
pp 144-165
Where Cultural Influence Meets Language Interference
By Theodore Markopoulosn
Chapter 8 - From Herakles to Erkoulios, or the Place of the War of Troy in the Late Byzantine Romance Movement
pp 166-187
By Elizabeth Jeffreys
Chapter 9 - Troy in Byzantine Romances
pp 188-210
Homeric Reception In Digenis Akritis The Tale Of Achilles And The Tale Of Troy
By Adam J. Goldwyn, Ingela Nilsson
Chapter 10 - Herodotean Material in a Late Version of the Alexander Romance
pp 211-229
By Corinne Jouanno
Chapter 11 - The Palaiologan Hagiographies
pp 230-253
Saints Without Romance
By Charis Messis
Chapter 12 - Homosocial Desire in the War of Troy
pp 254-271
Between Wo Men
By Stavroula Constantinou
Chapter 13 - Literary Landscapes in the Palaiologan Romances
pp 272-298
An Ecocritical Approach
By Kirsty Stewart
Chapter 14 - The Affective Community of Romance
pp 299-320
Love Privilege And The Erotics Of Death In The Mediterranean
By Megan Moore
Chapter 15 - The Bookseller’s Parrot
pp 321-339
A Fictional Afterword
By Panagiotis A. Agapitos
Index
