The culture of Latin Greece seven tales from the 13th and 14th centuries / by Vladimir Agrigoroaei.
| Author/creator | Agrigoroaei, Vladimir |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 1872-8103 ; volume 86 |
| Contents | Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Maps -- The First Tale: How This Book Came to Be -- User Guide/Reader's Manual -- The Second Tale: The Old Man on the Island -- Case Study 1: The Pseudo-Gregory Quotation of Cardinal Benedict -- Case Study 2: The Greek Denis and a Forgotten Athenian Monastery -- The Third Tale: Besides Translating Aristotle -- Case Study 3: Saint Denis, Athens, and a Parisian Manuscript -- Case Study 4: The Spandrel Panels of the Byzantine Museum in Athens -- Case Study 5: The Narthex of Omorphi Ekklisia in Galatsi -- Case Study 6: The Churches of Merbaka and Gorgoepikoos -- The Fourth Tale: A Lady's Change of Heart -- Case Study 7: The Songbook That Prince William Perhaps Never Had -- Case Study 8: The Mural Cycles of Thebes, Akronafplio, and Patras -- The Fifth Tale: Se una notte d'inverno un Spirituale ... -- Case Study 9: The Greek Chronicle of Morea and Its French 'Egg' -- Case Study 10: Ho Polemos tēs Trōados, an Offshoot of a Franco-Italian -- Tradition -- Case Study 11: The Holy Mass of Attica, amid Columns and Arcades -- The Sixth Tale: Melusine Goes to Mystras -- Case Study 12: The Catalan Head of Saint George -- Case study 13: The So-Called Achilleid as a Game of Forms -- Case Study 14: The Alexander Carving in the Perivleptos of Mystras -- Case Study 15: The Doubtful Orality of the 13th-14th Century Digenis -- Case Study 16: The Roman de Renart in the Churches of Mani -- The Seventh Tale: The Notary Learnt Too Much -- Case Study 17: Uther Pendragon Fights Belisarius in the Ultimate Literary -- War -- Epilogue -- Figures -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Abstract | "The artistic and literary maze of Latin-occupied Greece cannot be analysed by a conventional approach. Follow the author and the historical protagonists of his tales in a journey through a fragmentary shape-shifting corpus, from the medieval translations of Aristotle to pornographic animal tales carved on church columns. The book explains how art and literature were intertwined, how they evolved from the times of Nicetas Choniates to those of Isabella of Lusignan, and under what influences. It is based on the assumption that history is a form of literature, as they both share an "arbitrary distribution of emphasis" (Isaiah Berlin)"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Agrigoroaei, Vladimir. Culture of Latin Greece Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] 9789004524217 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022048710 |
| ISBN | 9789004524224 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
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