| Description |
1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; List of Illustrations; Prologue: Where is Thessalonica?; Therme and Thessalonica; Thessalonica, 'city of Philip' -- what is in a name?; Sister cities?; Part I Setting the Scene; 1 Methodology, Parameters and Subject Matter; Some observations on the cultural impact of the military saints; Towards a poetics of departures, marginalities and hurt; Constructions of the past; 2 Thessalonica: Historical and Geographical Background; An ancient metropolis: from Macedonia to Rome; Early Christian Thessalonica (c. 50-395); The second city |
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Hellenic rulers and Palaiologan heydayDownfall and literary response; Thessalonica and Constantinople; Part II Byzantine Hymnography as a Signifier of Civic Identity in Thessalonica; 3 Symeon of Thessalonica and the Sung Thessalonian Rite; 4 A Byzantine Hymn to St Demetrius as an Example of Civic Identity; The hymn; The text; The context; Part III Legacies of the Thessalonian Byzantine Culture; 5 Andronikos Kallistos: An Intellectual Biography of an Émigré from Thessalonica; The voice of exile: Andronikos Kallistos's death in London (1476) and his monody |
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Suffering in silence? What do the English manuscripts tell usAfterword; 6 An Akathistos Hymn to St Demetrius: An Example of Post-Byzantine Devotion; The prosomoion of the Akathistos; Secondary research questions; Part IV Auxiliary Materials; Maps; Illustrations; Learning Resources; Claimants in exile; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Appendix IV; Appendix V; Appendix VI; Index |
| Summary |
The 'long' fourteenth century perhaps can be seen as Thessalonica's heyday. Alongside its growing commercial prowess, the city was developing into an important centre of government, where members of the Byzantine imperial family of the Palaiologoi ruled independently under full imperial titles, striking coinage and following an increasingly autonomous external policy. It was also developing into a formidable centre for letters, education, and artistic expression, due in part to Palaiologan patronage. This volume sets out the political and commercial landscape of Thessalonica between 1303 and 1 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English and Greek |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Classical philology.
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Greek literature -- History and criticism
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Philology, Classical
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Classical philology
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Greek literature
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Intellectual life
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| SUBJECT |
Thessalonikē (Greece) -- Intellectual life
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| Subject |
Greece -- Thessalonikē
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441155849 |
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1441155848 |
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1306725356 |
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9781306725354 |
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9781472598981 |
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1472598989 |
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9781441161772 |
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1441161775 |
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9781472587336 |
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1472587332 |
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9781441158079 |
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1441158073 |
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