Book contents
- Reading the Late Byzantine Romance
- Reading the Late Byzantine Romance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Late Byzantine Romances and Their Editions
- Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Palaiologan Romance
- Chapter 2 The Categories of ‘Originals’ and ‘Adaptations’ in Late Byzantine Romance
- Chapter 3 Intercultural Encounters in the Late Byzantine Vernacular Romance
- Chapter 4 Dreams and Female Initiation in Livistros and Rhodamne and Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
- Chapter 5 The Acculturation of the French Romance Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne in the Byzantine Imperios and Margarona
- Chapter 6 Chronotopes between East and West in Apollonios of Tyre
- Chapter 7 Linguistic Contacts in the Late Byzantine Romances
- Chapter 8 From Herakles to Erkoulios, or the Place of the War of Troy in the Late Byzantine Romance Movement
- Chapter 9 Troy in Byzantine Romances
- Chapter 10 Herodotean Material in a Late Version of the Alexander Romance
- Chapter 11 The Palaiologan Hagiographies
- Chapter 12 Homosocial Desire in the War of Troy
- Chapter 13 Literary Landscapes in the Palaiologan Romances
- Chapter 14 The Affective Community of Romance
- Chapter 15 The Bookseller’s Parrot
- Index
- References
Chapter 1 - An Introduction to the Palaiologan Romance
Narrating the Vernacular
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2018
Book contents
- Reading the Late Byzantine Romance
- Reading the Late Byzantine Romance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Late Byzantine Romances and Their Editions
- Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Palaiologan Romance
- Chapter 2 The Categories of ‘Originals’ and ‘Adaptations’ in Late Byzantine Romance
- Chapter 3 Intercultural Encounters in the Late Byzantine Vernacular Romance
- Chapter 4 Dreams and Female Initiation in Livistros and Rhodamne and Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
- Chapter 5 The Acculturation of the French Romance Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne in the Byzantine Imperios and Margarona
- Chapter 6 Chronotopes between East and West in Apollonios of Tyre
- Chapter 7 Linguistic Contacts in the Late Byzantine Romances
- Chapter 8 From Herakles to Erkoulios, or the Place of the War of Troy in the Late Byzantine Romance Movement
- Chapter 9 Troy in Byzantine Romances
- Chapter 10 Herodotean Material in a Late Version of the Alexander Romance
- Chapter 11 The Palaiologan Hagiographies
- Chapter 12 Homosocial Desire in the War of Troy
- Chapter 13 Literary Landscapes in the Palaiologan Romances
- Chapter 14 The Affective Community of Romance
- Chapter 15 The Bookseller’s Parrot
- Index
- References
Summary
The introduction argues that the late medieval Greek (Palaiologan) romances can be seen as central to the formation of Byzantine identity and ideology at an important crossroads in time and place. Geographically, they reflect increased political and cultural influence from the European West and Ottoman East, and, temporally, they mark the transformation from a medieval to a modern Greek identity sparked by the impending collapse of the political and social structures which organized Greek life during the Byzantine Millenium. The introduction, therefore, also addresses the historical and philological questions which have dominated scholarly debate about them: questions of language, genre, ideology and intercultural exchange. In tracing the development of scholarly inquiry into the field, the introduction locates the ensuing chapters within these broader scholarly trends, showing how they both build off of previous work and develop it in new ways.
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Agapitos, P. A. 1992. ‘Byzantine Literature and Greek Philologists in the Nineteenth Century’, Classica et Mediaevalia 43: 231–60.Google Scholar
Agapitos, P. A. 2004. ‘Genre, Structure and Poetics in the Byzantine Vernacular Romances of Loveʼ [SO debate], Symbolae Osloenses 79: 7–101.Google Scholar
Agapitos, P. A. 2012. ‘In Rhomaian, Frankish and Persian Lands: Fiction and Fictionality in Byzantium’, in Medieval Narrative Between History and Fiction: From the Centre to the Periphery of Europe, c. 1100–1400, ed. Agapitos, P. A. and Mortensen, L. B.. Copenhagen, 235–367.Google Scholar
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Agapitos, P. A. and Smith, O. L., 1992. The Study of Medieval Greek Romance: A Reassessment of Recent Work. Copenhagen.Google Scholar
Beaton, R. 1996. The Medieval Greek Romance, 2nd edn, revised and expanded. London and New York.Google Scholar
Burton, J. 2008. ‘Byzantine Readers of the Novel’, in The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel, ed. Whitmarsh, T.. Cambridge, 272–81.Google Scholar
Conca, F. ed. 1994. Il romanzo bizantino del xii secolo. Teodoro Prodromo, Niceta Eugeniano, Eustazio Macrembolita, Constantino Manasse (Turin).Google Scholar
Cupane, C. 1986. ‘Topica romanzesca in oriente e in occidente: avanture e amour’, in Il romanzo tra cultura latina e cultura bizantina, ed. Roccaro, C.. Palermo, 47–72.Google Scholar
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Cupane, C. 2014. ‘Other Worlds, Other Voices: Form and Function of the Marvelous in Late Byzantine Fiction’, in Medieval Greek Storytelling: Fictionality and Narrative in Byzantium, ed. Roilos, P.. Wiesbaden, 183–202.Google Scholar
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Cupane, C. and Krönung, B., ed. 2016. Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond. Leiden and Boston.Google Scholar
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Roilos, P. 2016. ‘“I Grasp, Oh, Artist, Your Enigma, I Grasp Your Drama”: Reconstructing the Implied Audience of the Twelfth-Century Byzantine Novel’, in Fictional Storytelling in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond, ed. Cupane, C. and Krönung, B.. Leiden and Boston.Google Scholar
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Moore, M. 2014. Exchanges in Exoticism: Cross-Cultural Marriage and the Making of the Mediterranean in Old French Romance. Toronto.Google Scholar
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Roilos, P. 2005. Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel. Cambridge.Google Scholar
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