A Companion to Byzantine Poetry

Wolfram Hörandner, Ph.D. (1966), University of Vienna, is Emeritus Professor of Byzantine literature. He has published extensively on Byzantine literature. His main publications include Theodoros Prodromos, Historische Gedichte (1974) and Der Prosarhythmus in der rhetorischen Literatur der Byzantiner (1981) Andreas Rhoby, PD Ph.D. (2000), University of Vienna, works at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he is deputy head of the Division of Byzantine Research. He is also Privatdozent at the University of Vienna. His major publication is the 4-volume corpus on Byzantine inscriptional epigrams. Nikos Zagklas, Ph.D. (2014), University of Vienna, is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna. He has published on ­Theodore Prodromos and Byzantine poetry (especially of the 12th century).

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Byzantine Poetry: an Introduction

 Nikos Zagklas



Part 1: Preliminaries: Contexts, Language, Metrics, and Style

1 Byzantine Poetry: Texts and Contexts

 Marc D. Lauxtermann



2 The Language of Byzantine Poetry: New Words, Alternative Forms, and “Mixed Language”

 Martin Hinterberger



3 From Hexameters to Fifteen-syllable Verse

 Michael Jeffreys



4 Byzantine Poetry and Rhetoric

 Elizabeth Jeffreys



Part 2: Periods, Authors, Social and Cultural Milieus

5 Late Antique Poetry and its Reception

 Gianfranco Agosti



6 George of Pisidia: the Spring of Byzantine Poetry?

 Ioannis Vassis



7 Monasticism and Iconolatry: Theodore Stoudites

 Kristoffel Demoen



8 John Geometres: a Poet around the Year 1000

 Emilie van Opstall and Maria Tomadaki



9 The 11th Century: Michael Psellos and Contemporaries

 Floris Bernard



10 “How Many Verses Shall I Write and Say?” Poetry in the Komnenian Period (1081–1204)

 Nikos Zagklas



11 Poetry on Commission in Late Byzantium (13th–15th century)

 Andreas Rhoby



Part 3: Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond

12 “Accept a Roman Song with a Kindly Heart!”: Latin Poetry in Byzantium

 Kurt Smolak



13 Philippos Monotropos in Byzantium and the Slavonic World

 Eirini Afentoulidou and Jürgen Fuchsbauer



14 Byzantine Poetry at the Norman Court of Sicily (1130–c.1200)

 Carolina Cupane



Part 4: Transmission and Circulation

15 Byzantine Collections and Anthologies of Poetry

 Foteini Spingou



16 Byzantine Book Epigrams

 Floris Bernard and Kristoffel Demoen



17 Byzantine Verses as Inscriptions: the Interaction of Text, Object, and Beholder

 Ivan Drpić and Andreas Rhoby



Part 5: Particular Uses of Verse in Byzantium

18 Teaching with Verse in Byzantium

 Wolfram Hörandner



19 Hymn Writing in Byzantium: Forms and Writers

 Antonia Giannouli



20 The Past as Poetry: Two Byzantine World Chronicles in Verse

 Ingela Nilsson



21 Byzantine Verse Romances

 Roderick Beaton



General Bibliography

General Index