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  1. Writer and occasion in twelfth-century Byzantium
    the authorial voice of Constantine Manasses
    Author: Nilsson, Ingela
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

    The authorial voice of occasional literature -- Praising the emperor, visualizing his city -- The occasion of death: patronage and the writer on command -- In times of trouble: networks and friendships -- On an educational note: the writer as... more

     

    The authorial voice of occasional literature -- Praising the emperor, visualizing his city -- The occasion of death: patronage and the writer on command -- In times of trouble: networks and friendships -- On an educational note: the writer as grammatikos -- Life, love and the past: self-quotation and recycling -- Occasional writing as a creative craft. "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. Many of the texts by Constantine Manasses cited in this book have not previously been translated into English. "--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781108843355; 9781108824262
    Subjects: Constantinus;
    Other subjects: Manasses, Constantine (-1187)
    Scope: pages cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and indexes
  2. Writer and occasion in twelfth-century Byzantium
    the authorial voice of Constantine Manasses
    Author: Nilsson, Ingela
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    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... more

     

    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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781108843355; 9781108824262
    Subjects: Constantinus;
    Scope: x, 221 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Enthält Literaturverzeichnis auf Seite 191-214
  3. Writer and occasion in twelfth-century Byzantium
    the authorial voice of Constantine Manasses
    Author: Nilsson, Ingela
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

    The authorial voice of occasional literature -- Praising the emperor, visualizing his city -- The occasion of death: patronage and the writer on command -- In times of trouble: networks and friendships -- On an educational note: the writer as... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
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    The authorial voice of occasional literature -- Praising the emperor, visualizing his city -- The occasion of death: patronage and the writer on command -- In times of trouble: networks and friendships -- On an educational note: the writer as grammatikos -- Life, love and the past: self-quotation and recycling -- Occasional writing as a creative craft. "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. Many of the texts by Constantine Manasses cited in this book have not previously been translated into English. "--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781108824262
    RVK Categories: FK 18953
    Edition: First paperback edition ... First published 2021
    Subjects: Constantinus;
    Other subjects: Manasses, Constantine (-1187)
    Scope: x, 221 Seiten, 1 Illustration
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and indexes