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Romances, Byzantine. --- Byzantine romances --- Romances, Greek --- Byzantine literature
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1. Textkonstitution: The Historical Poems of Th. Pr. have been preserved in several medieval manuscripts and have been edited more than once; today there is also one modern critical edition of the whole corpus. And yet there still exist problems with the constitution of the text at several points. Some of them still remain after the present work; for others the situation looks much better, and many have been resolved. Restoration of the text was achieved in two ways. By systematical application of philological tools of all kinds (de novo consultation of the manuscript, grammar, syntax, metric, acquaintance with the author’s style of writing, comparative reading of texts, lexicographical research etc.) a convincing emendation was produced. Conversely, an inspiration, like a bolt of lightning in the night, was subsequently confirmed or augmented by the use of the above methods. 2. Quellenforschung here means the tracing of the path the poet’s spirit has followed, the effort to capture all his allusions or insinuations. This is achieved in two ways. The reader may encounter a passage that corresponds exactly with some other text he/she has read before. Alternatively, he/she may only have a vague recollection of a similar text which may be confirmed or precisely located with the help of modern technology or traditional methods.
Theodorus, --- Prodromus, Theodore --- Prodromus, Theodore. --- Criticism and interpretation.
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In twelfth-century Byzantium, poetry played a key part in various contexts of textual production and consumption. One of the leading poets of this period was Theodoros Prodromos, whose surviving corpus comprises approximately 17,000 verses. Even though most of his poetry has been presented in modern critical editions, a group of his works has been overlooked by modern philologists and literary scholars alike. The selected corpus—conventionally designated as Miscellaneous Poems—consists of texts on various themes and in a wide range of genres, ranging from cycles of religious and secular epigrams to riddles, ethopoiiai, and works of a self-referential and essayistic nature. This book includes the first critical edition and study of these poems, accompanied by English translations and commentaries. Their study contributes to a more nuanced picture of Prodromos' intellectual profile, expanding his image as the 'poet laureate' of the Komnenian court and providing entirely new insights into his activity in the different settings of Constantinopolitan intellectual life. The book also sheds new light on the complex relationship between patronage and other aspects of literary activity and the circulation of the same text in different performative contexts.
Prodromus, Theodore --- Prodromus, Theodore. --- Criticism and interpretation.
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