This volume fills the need for a new critical edition and
linguistic study of John Kananos' account of the siege of
Constantinople in 1422. New research on the manuscripts has
produced a new stemma codicum and shown that the oldest witness of
this narrative, Vat. gr. 579 (ff. 355r - 364v), was written in
Constantinople and belonged to the prolific scribe Phlamules
Kontostephanos, who also provided the copy with a title in which
the name of John Kananos is mentioned for the first time. The
philological approach adopted here explains contradictions among
the manuscripts and Kananos' peculiar vernacularisms and reveals a
surprisingly realistic and elaborate Greek. The accompanying
English translation, a chapter on the language of Kananos, and a
complete thesaurus make this volume a valuable contribution to the
study of late Byzantine literature.
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