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- 拜占庭
- 阅读史
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- Language
- Histoiredulivre
- Byzantium
- BNF
- Byzantine Empire
- Reading
- ancient history
- Literature
- medieval studies
- Europe
- history
- culture
- education
- early Christianity
具体描述
Offering a comprehensive introduction to the history of books, readers and reading in the Byzantine Empire and its sphere of influence, this volume addresses a paradox. Advanced literacy was rare among imperial citizens, being restricted by gender and class. Yet the state's economic, religious and political institutions insisted on the fundamental importance of the written record. Starting from the materiality of codices, documents and inscriptions, the volume's contributors draw attention to the evidence for a range of interactions with texts. They examine the role of authors, compilers and scribes. They look at practices such as the close perusal of texts in order to produce excerpts, notes, commentaries and editions. But they also analyse the social implications of the constant intersection of writing with both image and speech. Showcasing current methodological approaches, this collection of essays aims to place a discussion of Byzantium within the mainstream of medieval textual studies.
作者简介
Teresa Shawcross is Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, New Jersey. Interested in the pre-modern book, she has studied the materiality of manuscripts, the role of authors, translators and scribes, and the interplay between literacy and orality. Publications include: The Chronicle of Morea: Historiography in Crusader Greece (2009).
Ida Toth is Senior Instructor and Lecturer, and Research Fellow at University of Oxford. She convenes graduate courses in Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, and Byzantine Epigraphy. She has published on inscriptional culture and court rhetoric, and on the transmission of the Life of Aesop and the Book of Syntipas the Philosopher.
目录信息
pp 1-50
Introduction I - Byzantium: a Bookish World
pp 3-36
By Teresa Shawcross
Introduction II - Modern Encounters with Byzantine Texts and their Reading Publics
pp 37-50
By Ida Toth
Part I - Love for the Written Word
pp 51-154
The Emotions of Reading
pp 53-90
Chapter 1 - John Mauropous and the Benefits of Reading
pp 55-67
By Marina Bazzani
Chapter 2 - The Autobiographies of the Patriarch Gennadios II Scholarios
pp 68-90
By Michael Angold
Centre and Margins
pp 91-92
Chapter 3 - The Role of the Speeches of John the Oxite in Komnenian Court Politics
pp 93-115
By Judith R. Ryder
Chapter 4 - The Liturgical Poetics of an Elite Religious Confraternity
pp 116-132
By Paul Magdalino
Chapter 5 - Manuscript Notes and the Black Death in Rural Cyprus
pp 133-154
By Tassos Papacostas
08
Part II - Contact with a Living Culture
pp 155-372
The Power of Rhetoric
pp 157-234
Chapter 6 - Ancient Greek Rhetorical Theory and Byzantine Discursive Politics: John Sikeliotes on Hermogenes
pp 159-184
By Panagiotis Roilos
09
Chapter 7 - Memoirs as Manifesto: the Rhetoric of Katakalon Kekaumenos
pp 185-214
By Jonathan Shepard
10
Chapter 8 - Performative Reading in the Late Byzantine Theatron
pp 215-234
By Niels Gaul
11
Religious Texts
pp 235-314
Chapter 9 - The Religious World of John Malalas
pp 237-254
By David M. Gwynn
12
Chapter 10 - Oikonomia in the Hymns of Romanos the Melode
pp 255-270
By Johannes Koder
13
Chapter 11 - Quotation and Allusion in Symeon the New Theologian
pp 271-295
By Manolis S. Patedakis
Chapter 12 - Scriptural Citation in Andronikos Kamateros
pp 296-314
By Alessandra Bucossi
15
Secular Texts
pp 315-316
Chapter 13 - Aristocratic Family Narratives in Twelfth-century Byzantium
pp 317-335
By Peter Frankopan
16
Chapter 14 - Historiography, Epic and the Textual Transmission of Imperial Values: Liudprand’s Antapodosis and Digenes Akrites
pp 336-350
By Günter Prinzing
17
Chapter 15 - Intertextuality in the Late Byzantine Romance Tale of Troy
pp 351-372
By Ulrich Moennig
18
Part III - Communication and Influence
pp 373-514
Educational Practices
pp 375-394
Chapter 16 - Late Byzantine School Teaching Through the Iambic Canons and their Paraphrase
pp 377-394
By Dimitrios Skrekas
19
Text and Image
pp 395-444
Chapter 17 - Eros, Literature and the Veroli Casket
pp 397-413
By Liz James
20
Chapter 18 - Object, Text and Performance in Four Komnenian Tent Poems
pp 414-429
By Margaret Mullett
21
Chapter 19 - Textual and Visual Representations of the Antipodes from Byzantium and the Latin West
pp 430-444
By Maja Kominko
22
Interlingual Circulation and Transmission
pp 445-446
Chapter 20 - Basil I, Constantine VII and Armenian Literary Tradition in Byzantium
pp 447-466
By Tim Greenwood
23
Chapter 21 - Bilingual Reading, the Alexiad and the Gesta Roberti Wiscardi
pp 467-498
By James Howard-Johnston
24
Chapter 22 - Transplanting Culture: from Greek Novel to Medieval Romance
pp 499-514
By Roderick Beaton
25
Part IV - Modern Reading as Textual Archaeology
pp 515-625
Traces of Authorship
pp 517-584
Chapter 23 - Anonymous Textual Survivals from Late Antiquity
pp 519-546
By Fiona K. Haarer
26
Chapter 24 - Authorship and the Letters of Theodore Daphnopates
pp 547-557
By John Duffy
27
Chapter 25 - Authorship Revisited: Language and Metre in the Ptochoprodromika
pp 558-584
By Marjolijne C. Janssen, Marc D. Lauxtermann
28
Recovered Languages
pp 585-586
Chapter 26 - The Lexicon of Horses’ Colours in Learned and Vernacular Texts
pp 587-594
By Erich Trapp
29
Chapter 27 - Multilingualism and Translation in the Edition of Vernacular Texts
pp 595-625
By Manolis Papathomopoulos
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评分读完这本书，我感觉自己像是经历了一次漫长而细致的考古发掘，只不过挖掘的不是陶片或城墙，而是思想的痕迹。作者的叙事节奏把握得非常出色，起承转合之间，历史的厚重感和学术的精密度实现了完美的平衡。特别是在探讨了“阅读的权力”这一主题时，笔锋犀利，直指核心：谁拥有文本，谁就拥有解释世界的钥匙。书中对教会内部不同派系如何争夺对《圣经》和教父著作的解释权进行了详尽的剖析，那些复杂的教义争论，在作者的笔下竟然变得如此引人入胜，仿佛在看一场场高智商的哲学辩论赛。我特别欣赏作者对“精英阅读”和“平民阅读”之间鸿沟的探讨。虽然拜占庭是一个高度识字的社会，但真正掌握解读复杂文本能力的人是极少数的僧侣和宫廷官员，这种知识壁垒如何维持了帝国的稳定和僵化，是一个非常值得深思的议题。行文中引用的原始材料，无论是法律条文还是私人信件，都经过了精心的筛选和翻译，确保了论据的有力支撑，完全没有一般学术著作那种干瘪晦涩的感觉，读起来是一种享受。
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