The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature

List of Contributors Acknowledgments Abbreviations List of Figures 1) What is Byzantine Literature? An Introduction Stratis Papaioannou I. Materials, Norms, Codes 2) Language Martin Hinterberger 3) Book Culture Filippo Ronconi and Stratis Papaioannou 4) Theory of Literature Stratis Papaioannou 5) Biblical Hermeneutics Fr. Maximos Constas 6) Memory: Selection, Citation, Commonplace Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou 7) The Reception of Classical Literature and Ancient Myth Anthony Kaldellis 8) Translations I: From Other Languages into Greek I. Latin Réka Forrai II. Syriac Pablo Ubierna III. Arabic Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou IV. Georgian Nikoloz Aleksidze V. Neo-Latin Languages Carolina Cupane II. Forms 9) Orality and Textuality (With an Appendix on the Byzantine Conceptions) Charis Messis and Stratis Papaioannou 10) Narrative: Theory and Practice Ingela Nilsson 11) Rhetorical Practice Alexander Riehle 12) Rhetorical Figures Vessela Valiavitcharska 13) A Rhetorical Genre(?): The Invective (9th - 15th c.) Ioannis Polemis 14) Rewriting Stephanos Efthymiadis 15) Poetry? Floris Bernard and Kristoffel Demoen 16) Inscriptions Ivan Drpi? 17) Metrics and Prose Rhythm Wolfram Hörandner and Andreas Rhoby 18) Sacred Song Stratis Papaioannou 19) Recitation and Chant: Types of Notation, Modes of Expression Sandra Martani III. Agents 20) Authors (With an Excursus on Symeon Metaphrastes) Stratis Papaioannou 21) Readers and their Pleasures Stratis Papaioannou IV. Translation, Transmission, Edition 22) Translations II: Greek Texts into Other Languages (4th - 15th c.) I. Latin Réka Forrai II. Coptic Arietta Papaconstantinou III. Syriac Pablo Ubierna IV. Armenian Theo Maarten van Lint V. Georgian Nikoloz Aleksidze VI. Arabic Alexander Treiger VII. Slavic Sergey Ivanov and Anatolii Turilov 23) Modes of Manuscript Transmission (9th - 15th c.) Inmaculada Pérez Martín 24) Textual Criticism Caroline Macé Postscript 25) Thoughts on the Recent Past and the Future of Byzantine Literary Studies Margaret Mullett Glossary of Rhetorical Figures [Vessela Valiavitcharska] Index of Personal Names and Titles of Anonymous Texts