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Literature and Culture in Late Byzantine Thessalonica (Hardcover, New)
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Literature and Culture in Late Byzantine Thessalonica (Hardcover, New)
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The 'long' fourteenth century perhaps can be seen as Thessalonica's
heyday. Alongside its growing commercial prowess, the city was
developing into an important centre of government, where members of
the Byzantine imperial family of the Palaiologoi ruled
independently under full imperial titles, striking coinage and
following an increasingly autonomous external policy. It was also
developing into a formidable centre for letters, education, and
artistic expression, due in part to Palaiologan patronage. This
volume sets out the political and commercial landscape of
Thessalonica between 1303 and 1430, when the city fell to the
Ottoman Turks, before focusing on the literary and hymnographical
aspects of the city's cultural history and its legacy. The
cosmopolitan nature of urban life in Thessalonica, the polyphony of
opinions it experienced and expressed, its multiple links with
centres such as Constantinople, Adrianople, Athos, Lemnos and
Lesvos, and the diversity and strength of its authorial voices make
the study of the city's cultural life a vital part of our
understanding of the Byzantine Eastern Mediterranean.
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