A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography (Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World)

Riehle, Alexander (EDT)

Brill（2020/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 432 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004413696

Full Description

A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography introduces and contextualizes the culture of Byzantine letter-writing from various socio-historical, material and literary angles. While this culture was long regarded as an ivory-tower pastime of intellectual elites, the eighteen essays in this volume, authored by leading experts in the field, show that epistolography had a vital presence in many areas of Byzantine society, literature and art. The chapters offer discussions of different types of letters and intersections with non-epistolary genres, their social functions as media of communication and performance, their representations in visual and narrative genres, and their uses in modern scholarship. The volume thus contributes to a more nuanced understanding of letter-writing in the Byzantine Empire and beyond.


Contributors are: Thomas Johann Bauer, Alexander Beihammer, Floris Bernard, Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis, Carolina Cupane, Niels Gaul, Cecily J. Hilsdale, Sofia Kotzabassi, Florin Leonte, Divna Manolova, Stratis Papaioannou, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Alexander Riehle, Jack Tannous, Lena Wahlgren-Smith.

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Byzantine Epistolography: a Historical and Historiographical Sketch

 Alexander Riehle

Part 1: Contexts for Byzantine Epistolography

1 Letter Writing in Antiquity and Early Christianity

 Thomas Johann Bauer

2 Syriac Epistolography

 Jack Tannous

3 Letter Collections in the Latin West

 Lena Wahlgren-Smith

Part 2: Byzantine Letter-Writers in Context

4 Michael Psellos

 Floris Bernard

5 The Letters of Demetrios Kydones

 Florin Leonte

Part 3: Forms and Functions of Byzantine Epistolography

6 Epistolography and Rhetoric

 Sofia Kotzabassi

7 Epistolography and Diplomatics

 Alexander Beihammer

8 Didacticism in Byzantine Epistolography

 Florin Leonte

9 Epistolography and Philosophy

 Divna Manolova

10 Epistolary Culture and Friendship

 Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis

11 Epistolary Communication: Rituals and Codes

 Floris Bernard

12 The Epistolographic Self

 Stratis Papaioannou

13 The Letter in the Theatron: Epistolary Voice, Character, and Soul (and Their Audience)

 Niels Gaul

14 Letters and Letter Exchange in Byzantine Art

 Cecily J. Hilsdale

15 Letters in Narrative Literature

 Carolina Cupane

Part 4: Byzantine Epistolography and (Post-)Modern Theory

16 Letters and Network Analysis

 Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

17 Letters and New Philology

 Alexander Riehle

General Bibliography

Index