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Before
its violent and destructive occupation by French and
Venetian crusaders in 1204, Constantinople was one of
the world’s most populous, splendid and vibrant cities.
As such, it led the world in not only the preservation
but also the creation of Greek literature. Its many
surviving literary texts are no less important than its
few remaining buildings as witnesses to its rich and
dynamic urban environment. Literature and the City
brings together fifteen studies that explore the variety
of connections between literary creativity, space and
society in medieval Constantinople.
Contents:
Introduction
The Theatre of Byzantion-Constantinople
The Merchant of Constantinople
The Bath of Leo the Wise and the “Macedonian
Renaissance” Revisited
The Culture of Water in the ‘Macedonian Renaissance’
The Liturgical Poetics of an Elite Religious
Confraternity
Byzantine Encyclopaedism of the Ninth and Tenth
Centuries
The Patria of Constantinople: scholarship or literature?
Cultural Change? The Context of Byzantine Poetry from
Geometres to Prodromos
Theodore Prodromos, Carmina historica, I: Translation
and Commentary
The Triumph of 1133
The Sebastokrator Isaac at Home
Political Satire (with a translation of Nikephoros
Basilakes’ comments on his own satirical writings)
Debunking astrology in twelfth-century Constantinople
Poetry and Theatre in Twelfth-Century Constantinople
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