The two volumes offer the first critical edition of the entire letter-collection of Michael Psellos; a total of 563 texts, including spuria, rewritings, and excerpts. Psellos (11th c., Constantinople) is a well-known figure among students of Byzantine culture and arguably the most prolific and influential middle Byzantine learned author. His letter-collection, preserved in 53 Byzantine and post-Byzantine manuscripts, grants us glimpses into the lives of well-known but also everyday Byzantines, sheding light upon Constantinopolitan networks of friendship and power and, more importantly, upon habits of rhetorical craftsmanship, literary imagination, and typologies of self.
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Stratis Papaioannou, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece.
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Format PDF ● Pages 1392 ● ISBN 9783110625011 ● File size 8.6 MB ● Editor Stratis Papaioannou ● Publisher De Gruyter ● City Berlin/Boston ● Published 2019 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7349359 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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