| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Brill's companions to the Byzantine world |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Medieval Fictional Story-Telling in the Eastern Mediterranean (8th-15th centuries AD): Historical and Cultural Context; part 1; Of Love and Other Adventures ; Chapter 1; Mapping the Roots: The Novel in Antiquity ; Massimo Fusillo; Chapter 2; Romantic Love in Rhetorical Guise: The Byzantine Revival of the Twelfth Century; Ingela Nilsson; Chapter 3; In the Mood of Love: Love Romances in Medieval Persian Poetry and their Sources; Julia Rubanovich; Chapter 4; In the Realm of Eros: The Late Byzantine Vernacular Romance |
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"Let me tell you a wonderful tale": Audience and Reception of the Vernacular RomancesCarolina Cupane; General Bibliography; General Index |
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Carolina CupaneChapter 5; The Adaptations of Western Sources by Byzantine Vernacular Romances; Kostas Yiavis; part 2; Ancient and New Heroes ; Chapter 6; A Hero Without Borders: 1 Alexander the Great in Ancient, Byzantine and Modern Greek Tradition; Ulrich Moennig; Chapter 7; A Hero Without Borders: 2 Alexander the Great in the Syriac and Arabic Tradition; Faustina C.W. Doufikar-Aerts; Chapter 8; A Hero Without Borders: 3 Alexander the Great in the Medieval Persian Tradition; Julia Rubanovich; Chapter 9; Tales of the Trojan War: Achilles and Paris in Medieval Greek Literature |
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Fighting with Tales: 2 The Byzantine Book of Syntipas the Philosopher*Ida Toth; Chapter 16; From the Desert to the Holy Mountain: The Beneficial Story of Barlaam and Ioasaph; Robert Volk; Chapter 17; The Wisdom of the Beasts: The Arabic Book of Kalīla and Dimna and the Byzantine Book of Stephanites and Ichnelates; Bettina Krönung; part 4; Between Literacy and Orality: Audience and Reception of Fictional Literature ; Chapter 18; "I grasp, oh, artist, your enigma, I grasp your drama": Reconstructing the Implied Audience of the Twelfth-Century Byzantine Novel*; Panagiotis Roilos; Chapter 19 |
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Renata LavagniniChapter 10; Shared Spaces: 1 Digenis Akritis, the Two-Blood Border Lord; Corinne Jouanno; Chapter 11; Shared Spaces: 2 Cross-border Warriors in the Arabian Folk Epic; Claudia Ott ; part 3; Wise Men and Clever Beasts ; Chapter 12; The Literary Life of a Fictional Life: Aesop in Antiquity and Byzantium; Grammatiki A. Karla; Chapter 13; Secundus the Silent Philosopher in the Ancient and Eastern Tradition; Oliver Overwien; Chapter 14; Fighting with Tales: 1 The Arabic Book of Sindbad the Philosopher; Bettina Krönung; Chapter 15 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Byzantine literature -- Mediterranean Region -- History and criticism
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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Fiction, Medieval -- History and criticism
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- History.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Byzantine literature.
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Civilization -- Foreign influences.
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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Fiction, Medieval.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Mediterranean Region -- Civilization -- Foreign influences
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Mediterranean Region.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cupane, Carolina, editor.
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Krönung, Bettina, editor.
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| LC no. |
2016036782 |
| ISBN |
9004307729 |
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9789004307728 |
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