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Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry, 1025-1081 (Hardcover)
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Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry, 1025-1081 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Byzantium
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In the mid-eleventh century, secular Byzantine poetry attained a
hitherto unseen degree of wit, vividness, and personal involvement,
chiefly exemplified in the poetry of Christophoros Mitylenaios,
Ioannes Mauropous, and Michael Psellos. This is the first volume to
consider this poetic activity as a whole, critically reconsidering
modern assumptions about Byzantine poetry, and focusing on
Byzantine conceptions of the role of poetry in society. By
providing a detailed account of the various media through which
poetry was presented to its readers, and by tracing the initial
circulation of poems, this volume takes an interest in the
Byzantine reader and his/her reading habits and strategies,
allowing aspects of performance and visual representation, rarely
addressed, to come to the fore. It also examines the social
interests that motivated the composition of poetry, establishing a
connection with the extraordinary social mobility of the time.
Self-representative strategies are analyzed against the background
of an unstable elite struggling to find moral justification, which
allows the study to raise the question of patronage, examine the
discourse used by poets to secure material rewards, and explain the
social dynamics of dedicatory epigrams. Finally, gift exchange is
explored as a medium that underlines the value of poetry and
confirms the exclusive nature of intellectual friendship.
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