Kalligraphos – Essays on Byzantine Language, Literature and Palaeography

From Byzantine Historiography to Post-Byzantine Poetry

Alexander Alexakis, Dimitrios S. Georgakopoulos, Alexander Alexakis, Dimitrios S. Georgakopoulos

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9783111010335
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

The present volume is a Festschrift in honor of the distinguished scholar in Late Byzantine, post-Byzantine and Cretan Renaissance studies I. Mavromatis. The title Kalligraphos is indicative of the foundations of his scholarship, which lie in the fields of paleography and early printing. With manuscripts and early printed books as the primary material of his studies, Professor Mavromatis has produced several major works in the fields of Byzantine philology, Cretan Renaissance literature (especially Erotorcritos) and late Byzantine vernacular poetry. This volume includes a short preface and twenty-four articles by senior and younger scholars, former colleagues, collaborators, and students of Professor Mavromatis. The articles are loosely arranged in chronological order of their subject matter and treat issues ranging from Byzantine historiography going back to the 4th century CE to post-Byzantine Cretan poetry of the 17th century. This philological kaleidoscope features new editions and interpretations of hitherto unknown or little-known poems and texts. The volume is intended for scholars, graduate and undergraduate students and the general readership interested in Byzantine and post-Byzantine literature.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Βυζαντινοί Ιστορικοί και Χρονογράφοι: Τομές, δεδομένα και προκλήσεις στην έρευνα
• Parva Hesychiana
• Theodotos Melissenos Kassiteras: A Note on the Meaning of his Sobriquet
• Imperial Hymnography: The Canon of St Demetrios Attributed to Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
• A Note on Leo the Deacon’s Ηistory 6, 6 (pp. 100–101 Hase)
• Theophylact of Ohrid’s Vita of Clement of Ohrid and the Martyrdom of the Fifteen Martyrs of Tiberiopolis
• Les rats et le vieux gentilhomme gourmand: Notes sur un épisode de Timariôn
• Gregory the Sinaite, Savas of Vatopedi and Maximos Kausokalybites
• Matthew of Ephesus and his Dialogue on the Immortality of Adam and Eve
• Un Recueil Palamite inconnu du XIV^e s. au Musée de Sainte Catharine d’Héraklion
• Μάρκου Μουσούρου τοῦ Κρητὸς παράφραση τοῦ Συμβόλου τῆς Πίστεως σὲ ἑξαμέτρους στίχους
• Some Remarks on the Manuscript Tradition of Ptochoprodromica
• Ο Κρασοπατέρας του 14^ου αιώνα – Kριτική έκδοση
• Η αρχική μορφή του Καταλογιού της Πόθας του Στέφανου Σαχλίκη και τί άραγε τραγουδούσαν οι μαθητές του σχολείου
• Διδαχή Σολομῶντος περὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ Ροβοάμ: New Evidence for the Dating and Cretan Provenance of the Poem
• Ἀρχοντόπουλo καὶ ἀπὸ καλὴν γενέαν: Una Variante della Batrachomyomachia di Dimitrios Zinos (Dal frammento del Sinai
• Cherchez la Veuve: Remarks on Apokopos
• Ἐξήγησις τοῦ Θαυμαστοῦ Ἰμπερίου: Βιβλιολογικὲς παρατηρήσεις σὲ Ἐκδόσεις τοῦ 16^ου αἰώνα
• Η Ερωφίλη του Γεωργίου Χορτάτση και η Acripanda του Antonio Decio da Orte
• Νεότερες φιλολογικές εκδόσεις του Ερωτόκριτου: Εκτιμήσεις, απορίες, εικασίες, προτάσεις
• Η Δυναμική των Αντιθέσεων σε Έργα της Κρητικής Λογοτεχνίας (14^ος–17^ος αι.)
• When is a Monk not a Monk? A Landowner’s Complaint in Seventeenth Century Crete
• Notes on a Cretan Poet’s Precedence Dispute (Venice, late 17^th Century)
• The Poem by Marinos Tzanes (1684) and Pavlos Kladopoulos’ Newer Rhyme (1712)
• Bibliography – Ι. Mavromatis
• General Index