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Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium - The Authorial Voice of Constantine Manasses (Paperback, New Ed)
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Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium - The Authorial Voice of Constantine Manasses (Paperback, New Ed)
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In twelfth-century Constantinople, writers worked on commission for
the imperial family or aristocratic patrons. Texts were occasioned
by specific events, representing both a link between writer and
patron and between literary imagination and empirical reality. This
is a study of how one such writer, Constantine Manasses, achieved
that aim. Manasses depicted and praised the present by drawing from
the rich sources of the Graeco-Roman and Biblical tradition, thus
earning commissions from wealthy 'friends' during a career that
spanned more than three decades. While the occasional literature of
writers like Manasses has sometimes been seen as 'empty rhetoric',
devoid of literary ambition, this study assumes that writing on
command privileges originality and encourages the challenging of
conventions. A society like twelfth-century Byzantium, in which
occasional writing was central, called for a strong and individual
authorial presence, since voice was the primary instrument for a
successful career.
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