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Tale of Livistros and Rodamne

A Byzantine Love Romance of the 13th Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvPanagiotis A. Agapitos

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This volume offers the first fully scholarly translation into English of the Tale of Livistros and Rodamne, a love romance written around the middle of 13th century at the imperial court of Nicaea, at the time when Constantinople was still under Latindominion. With its approximately 4700 verses, Livistros and Rodamne is the longest and the most artfully composed of the eight surviving Byzantine love romances. It was almost certainly written to be recited in front of an aristocratic audience by an educated poet experienced in the Greek tradition of erotic fiction, yet at the same time knowledgeable of the Medieval French and Persian romances of love and adventure. The poet has created a very 'modern' narrative filled with attractiveepisodes, including the only scene of demonic incantation in Byzantine fiction.The language of the romance is of a high poetic quality, challenging thetranslator at every step. Finally, Livistros and Rodamne is the only Byzantine romance that consistently constructs the Latin world of chivalry as an exotic setting, a type of occidentalism aiming to tame and to incorporate the Frankish Otherin the social norms of the Byzantine Self after the Fall of Constantinople to the Latins in 1204.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-06-01
Mått147 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTranslated Texts for Byzantinists
Antal sidor208
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781789622164

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Preface Introduction I. General issues1. The genre of Byzantine romance2. L&R in olderscholarship3. Textualhistory and editorial situation4. Date,place of composition, primary audienceII. Literary matters1. Abrief summary of L&R2. Relationto the Komnenian and Ancient Greek novels3. Relationto the Old French romances4. Byzantineoccidentalism? Exoticism in L&R5. The‘awe-inspiring mysteries’ of a poet’s art6. Narrativeand the organization of time7. Narrativespace and narrated spaces8. L&R as an instruction manual on the‘art of love’9. Eros,hybrid power and the politics of desire10. Poeticlanguage and the blended style in L&RIII. The translationThe Tale of Livistros and RodamneBibliography