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From Byzantium to Modern Greece - Medieval Texts and their Modern Reception (Hardcover, New Ed)
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From Byzantium to Modern Greece - Medieval Texts and their Modern Reception (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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The twelfth century was a time of cultural renewal and innovation
in Byzantium, just as it was in the west. In literature, the long
disused genres of epic, satire and the novel (or 'romance') took
new forms during that century; at the same time, in language, the
vernacular made its first tentative literary appearances. These
developments continued uninterruptedly through the late Byzantine
and early modern periods. Scholarship since the nineteenth century
has been sharply divided over these texts: do they represent the
first 'breakthrough' of an emergent 'Modern Greek' literature, or
merely a footnote to the Byzantine learned tradition? What, in
particular, do they have to tell us about the collective
self-definition of the Greek-speakers who wrote them (roughly
during the period 1100-1600)? And how has their subsequent
reception contributed to defining and consolidating the national
identity of the Modern Greeks, since the nation state was
established in the 1820s? The papers collected in this book explore
the relation between literary texts and collective consciousness,
scrutinizing the evidence of the texts themselves in their late- or
post-Byzantine context, and assessing how their reception both
influenced and was influenced by the processes of nation-building
in Modern Greece.
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