Zagklas, Nikos (ed.)
Cambridge University Press, 2024
400 p. 22x15 cm.
9781009467322
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The twelfth century was one of the most fertile periods in Byzantine literary history and this volume is the first to focus exclusively on its abundant poetic production. It explores the broader sociocultural tendencies that shaped twelfth-century literature in both prose and verse by examining the school as an important venue for the composition and use of texts written in verse, by shedding new light on the relationship between poetry, patronage and power, and by offering the first editions and interpretive studies of hitherto neglected works. In this way, it enhances our knowledge of the history of Byzantine literature and enables us to situate Medieval Greek poetry in the broader literary world of the medieval Mediterranean.
The first book focused on Byzantine poetry in the rich cultural climate of the Komnenian period
Examines the school as an important venue for the composition and use of texts in verse and sheds new light on the relationship between poetry, patronage and power by studying texts that have received little or no scholarly attention so far
Presents editions of previously unedited materials.
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