After the Text: Byzantine Enquiries in Honour of Margaret Mullett (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies #32)

Synopsis

After the Text honours the work of renowned historian Margaret Mullett, who since the 1970s has transformed the study of Byzantine literature. Her work has been influential in demonstrating the strength and variety of Byzantine texts. Byzantium is renowned for its achievements in architecture and the visual arts. Professor Mullett's perceptive studies, produced over more than 40 years, have shown that the literature of the Byzantine Empire is of equal beauty and interest, ranging, as it does, from high-style poetry and rhetoric in the classical manner through letters to demotic writings such as fables and the lives of saints. The collection of essays in this volume draws further attention to the wealth and diversity of Byzantine texts, by exploring the Greek literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in all its variety. These studies, by going, like Professor Mullett herself, beyond the texts, illustrate the value of Byzantine literature for interpreting Byzantine history and civilisation in all its richness. This book is crucial reading for scholars and students of the Byzantine world, as well as for those interested in literary studies.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

374 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000468717

Related ISBNs:

9781003021759, 9780367898861, 9781032065458

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/25/22

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Liz James, Oliver Nicholson and Roger Scott

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Roger Scott

Edited by:

Oliver Nicholson

Edited by:

Liz James