Bibliophilos

Books and Learning in the Byzantine World

Charalambos Dendrinos, Ilias Giarenis, Charalambos Dendrinos, Ilias Giarenis

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9783110718546
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Byzantine History
• Index: History

The present volume is a Festschrift in honour of the distinguished Byzantinist Costas N. Constantinides. The title of the volume, Bibliophilos: Books and Learning in the Byzantine World, reflects Professor Constantinides' major contribution to the fields of Greek palaeography, editions of Byzantine texts, Byzantine history, scholarship and education, and Cypriot manuscripts and culture. The volume is introduced by a preface and a tabula gratulatoria dedicated to the honorand, followed by twenty articles, written by seasoned and younger scholars, who are former colleagues and students of Professor Constantinides. These articles, which appear in alphabetical order, offer new material and shed fresh light to the study of Greek manuscripts, binders and scribes, and the life, works and activities of Byzantine scholars, teachers and students, providing editions of unpublished texts, including letters and poems, and exploring various aspects of Byzantine and Cypriot history, literature, art, science and culture. In the process the authors often challenge earlier views and offer new interpretations and insights. Bibliophilos is a book for the student, teacher and scholar of Byzantium in particular, and for every bibliophile in general.

General Index

In the transliteration of Greek words, terms and names in the articles above and the index below, rather than seeking consistency we have respected the contributors’ preferences. Thus, we have adopted various orthographical, phonological and conventional forms, which we hope do not create confusion but demonstrate the plurality of existing traditions: e.g., Anna Comnena and Anna Komnene, Constantine Acropolites and Konstantinos Akropolites, Palaeologan and Palaiologan. In the General Index in such lemmata variant forms, including names and words in Greek characters, appear in parentheses following strict alphabetical order: e.g., Acropolites George (Akropolites Georgios, Ai-Gialos ( Ἅη-Γιαλός), stauropegion (stavropegion).

• • Abd al-Karīm al-Shirwānī al-Fahhād
  • Abraham
  • Acropolites, Constantine (Akropolites Konstant...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• A poem by Manuel, a baptised Jew: was he a student of Nikephoros Blemmydes?
• Niketas Choniates in exile
• Το Ψαλτήριο στην εκπαίδευση του χριστιανικού κόσμου
• Tra le carte e i libri di un anonimo impiegato del catasto (Tessalonica, intorno all’anno 1300)
• Greek Manuscripts from Epirus and Southern Italy in the Library of the Monastery of St John the Theologian, Patmos
• Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus’ unpublished Letter to his spiritual fathers David and Damianos
• Reading Sophocles with Manuel Moschopoulos
• Behind the mask: a letter of Nikolaos Mesarites to Emperor Theodoros I Komnenos Laskaris
• A new Manuscript of the scribe Ambrosios from the Monastery of Andrion: Larnaca, Metropolis of Kition 18
• From Tabriz to Trebizond and Constantinople: the introduction of Persian astronomy into the Byzantine World (ca. 1300–1350)
• The Patria of Constantinople: scholarship or literature?
• The scribal formula Διπλοῦν τὸν ἁπλοῦν
• John Pothos Pediasimos’ schedographical corpus
• Once more on the life and handwriting of the hypatos tōn philosophōn John Pothos Pediasimos
• A game between a copyist and a binder of a manuscript: the case of cod. Vat. gr. 897
• Sein Geist dürfte auf den Olymp geflogen sein, zum elysischen Gefilde! Zwei Grabgedichte (Ende 15. Jh.) des Andreas Arnes auf seinen Vater im Cod. Par. gr. 3048
• Eustratios of Nicaea: a hithertho unknown ‘master of rhetors’ in late eleventh century
• Το βιβλίο ως δώρημα προς τα μοναστήρια. Συμβολή στη μελέτη της λογιοσύνης της Μονής Ιβήρων
• Μεταξὺ Βασιλεύουσας, Φράγκων καὶ Γαληνοτάτης. Ἕνας Κωνσταντινουπολίτης ζωγράφος στὴν Κύπρο
• Τοῖς ἀθετοῦσι τὴν δίκην τοῦ σεκρέτου … Die Restaurierung des Kaisergerichts in Konstantinopel durch Michael VIII. Palaiologos
• Index of Manuscripts
• General Index