Epistolary Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond

Krystina Kubina is a research associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She specializes in late Byzantine poetry and has published a monograph on the fourteenth century poet Manuel Philes (Die enkomiastische Dichtung des Manuel Philes. Form und Funktion des literarischen Lobes in der frühen Palaiologenzeit, Berlin 2020).Alexander Riehle is Assistant Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. He specializes in the rhetorical and epistolary literature of late Byzantium. He is the editor of A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography (Leiden 2020) and is currently preparing an edition and translation of the letter-collections of Nikephoros Choumnos (anticipated 2021).

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsNotes on Texts and TranslationsAbbreviationsIntroductionKrystina Kubina and Alexander RiehlePART 1: ESSAYS1 Epigrams and Verse Letters in Palladas and Gregory of NazianzosChristos Simelidis2 Epigrammata epistulam faciunt? Christopher of Mitylene to His FriendsEmilie van Opstall3 Epistolarity in Twelfth-century Byzantine Poetry: Singing Praises and Asking Favors in absentiaNikolaos Zagklas4 Functions of Letters in Verse and Prose: A Comparison of Manuel Philes and Theodore HyrtakenosKrystina Kubina5 Francesco Filelfo’s Verse Letters: Form, Content, and FunctionAndreas RhobyPART 2: ANTHOLOGYTextsPalladas (1–2)Christos SimelidisGregory of Nazianzos (3–5)Christos SimelidisAgathias — Paul the Silentiary (6–7)Delphine LauritzenDioskoros of Aphrodito (8)Alexander RiehleTheodore the Stoudite (9)Alexander RiehleTheodore and Theophanes Graptos — Methodios (10)Alexander Riehle Anonymous of Sola (11)Floris BernardJohn Mauropous (12)Floris BernardMichael Psellos (13)Floris BernardChristopher of Mitylene (14–20)Emilie van Opstall (14–19)Przemysław Marciniak and Katarzyna Warcaba (20)Theophylaktos of Ohrid (21–22)Nikos ZagklasTheodore Prodromos (23–25)Nikos ZagklasManganeios Prodromos (26–29)Elizabeth and Michael JeffreysMichael Hagiotheodorites (30)Przemysław Marciniak and Katarzyna WarcabaPseudo-Psellos (31)Floris BernardEuthymios Tornikes (32)Nikos ZagklasLibistros and Rhodamne (33–34)Panagiotis A. AgapitosManuel Philes (35–45)Krystina KubinaStephanos Sgouropoulos (46)Krystina KubinaErotopaignia (47)Alexander RiehleGerardos (48)Alexander RiehleFrancesco Filelfo (49)Andreas RhobyAngelo Poliziano (50–55)Andreas RhobyJohn Clajus (56)Andreas RhobyCommentaryFiguresBibliographyGeneral IndexIndex of Manuscripts and Papyri

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