Poetry in Late Byzantium

Krystina Kubina, Ph.D. (2018), Austrian Academy of Sciences, is a research associate at the Institute for Medieval Research. She has published widely on late Byzantine literary culture, including books on epistolary poetry (2021) and the poet Manuel Philes (2020).

• ContentsAbbreviationsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPart 1: Introduction1 Mapping the Poetic Landscape of Late ByzantiumKrystina KubinaPart 2: Authorial Voices: Form and Meaning2 Worlds Apart?Theodore Metochites, Manuel Philes, and Stephanos Sachlikes ComparedMartin Hinterberger3 Slithering across VerseThe Multifarious Functions of Snake Imagery in Manuel Philes’ PoetryFederica Scognamiglio4 Representations of Light in John Chortasmenos’ RhetoricA Comparison of Verse and Prose CompositionsFlorin LeontePart 3: Praise, Power, and Patronage5 Poetry, Ceremonial, and Legitimacy under Michael VIII PalaiologosManuel Holobolos’ Prokypsis Poems and Their ContextsCosimo Paravano6 Narrating Loyalty in George of Pisidia and Manuel PhilesDaniil Pleshak7 Poetry from the ProvincesJohn Katakalon’s Encomium of Emperor John V PalaiologosMarina Bazzani8 Greek and Latin Epigrams on the Death of Theodore GazaUgo MondiniPart 4: Storytelling in Verse9 Rewriting History in Verse in Late ByzantiumTowards a Reassessment of Ephraim of AinosJulián Bértola10 Singing Heroes in the Time of KnightsConstantine Hermoniakos and His IliadAlberto Ravani11 Chronicle of the Tocco or Life of Carlo Tocco?A Greek Case of Biographie ChevaleresqueBrendan OsswaldPart 5: Poetry and Instruction12 The Chapters in Four Ways and Their ReadersProse and Poetry at WorkGiulia M. Paoletti13 Verses of Great BeautyAn Early Palaiologan Collection of Paraenetic PoemsMarc D. Lauxtermann14 Mazaris, Galaktion, or (Ptocho-)Prodromos?On the Tradition of Orthographical Canons in Late Byzantium and BeyondTheodora AntonopoulouIndex