Format:
1 online resource (288 pages)
ISBN:
9789004349070
Series Statement:
Byzantina Australiensia Volume 21
Content:
This collection on Byzantine culture in translation, edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil, examines the practices and theories of translation inside the Byzantine empire and beyond its horizons to the east, north and west, from Late Antiquity to the present.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Narrating the Reign of Constantine in Byzantine Chronicles -- Chapter 2 Breaking Down Barriers: Eunuchs in Italy and North Africa, 400-620 -- Chapter 3 The Orient Express: Abbot John's Rapid Trip from Constantinople to Ravenna c. AD 700 -- Chapter 4 Bang For His Buck: Dioscorides as a Gift of the Tenth-Century Byzantine Court -- Chapter 5 Nikephoros Phokas as Superhero -- Chapter 6 Byzantine Religious Tales in Latin Translation: The Work of John of Amalfi -- Chapter 7 Translations from Greek into Latin and Arabic during the Middle Ages: Searching for the Classical Tradition -- Chapter 8 A Web of Translations: Planudes in Search of Human Reason -- Chapter 9 Translating Dorotheus of Gaza: From Gaza to Humanist Europe -- Chapter 10 The Translation of Constantinople from Byzantine to Ottoman, as Revealed by the Lorck Prospect of the City -- Chapter 11 Byzantium after Byzantium? Two Greek Writers in Seventeenth-century Wallachia -- Chapter 12 Yeats's Two Byzantiums -- Conclusion: Translating Byzantium in the New Millennium -- General Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004348868
Additional Edition:
Australian Association for Byzantine Studies (18. : 2014 : Brisbane) Byzantine culture in translation Leiden : Brill, 2017 ISBN 9789004348868
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Byzantinisches Reich
;
Kultur
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
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Author information:
Neil, Bronwen 1969-
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