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Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters - The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos (Paperback)
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Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters - The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos (Paperback)
Series: Michael Psellos in Translation
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Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters makes available for the
first time extensive English translations from the works of Michael
Psellos (1018-1081?), a key philosopher of the Byzantine Empire.
Psellos was not simply a philosopher, he was also a courtier,
historian, and monk, and his works betray a dazzling engagement
with philosophy, theology, history, and science. These interests
were expressed in some eleven hundred works, including formal
rhetorical texts, history writing, letters, poetry, and texts
written for his students. This book contains the works that Psellos
wrote about his family, including a long funeral oration for his
mother that features unique recollections from a childhood spent in
Constantinople; a funeral oration for his young daughter Styline,
which includes a detailed description of her physical appearance
and a moving account of her illness and death; a legal work
pertaining to the engagement of his second, adopted, daughter; and
various letters and other works that relate to the private life of
this Byzantine family. These works offer us a rare and
comprehensive picture of the family life of a medieval Byzantine
courtier and philosopher. Much of the material follows the rules of
rhetoric inherited from classical and Christian antiquity, but
Psellos was always recasting the conventions of those genres to
express his own revolutionary views regarding the relation of body
and soul. Some of these works also have an apologetic or legal
purpose, as Psellos occasionally used them to get himself out of
trouble. Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters will appeal to all
who study medieval women, childhood, and the family, especially as
it provides a Byzantineperspective that has been absent from most
modern discussions of those topics.
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