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The Tale of Livistros and Rodamne - A Byzantine Love Romance of the 13th Century (Paperback)
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The Tale of Livistros and Rodamne - A Byzantine Love Romance of the 13th Century (Paperback)
Series: Translated Texts for Byzantinists, 10
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This volume offers the first fully scholarly translation into
English of the Tale of Livistros and Rodamne, a love romance
written around the middle of 13th century at the imperial court of
Nicaea, at the time when Constantinople was still under Latin
dominion. With its approximately 4700 verses, Livistros and Rodamne
is the longest and the most artfully composed of the eight
surviving Byzantine love romances. It was almost certainly written
to be recited in front of an aristocratic audience by an educated
poet experienced in the Greek tradition of erotic fiction, yet at
the same time knowledgeable of the Medieval French and Persian
romances of love and adventure. The poet has created a very
'modern' narrative filled with attractive episodes, including the
only scene of demonic incantation in Byzantine fiction. The
language of the romance is of a high poetic quality, challenging
the translator at every step. Finally, Livistros and Rodamne is the
only Byzantine romance that consistently constructs the Latin world
of chivalry as an exotic setting, a type of occidentalism aiming to
tame and to incorporate the Frankish Other in the social norms of
the Byzantine Self after the Fall of Constantinople to the Latins
in 1204.
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