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Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204): New Texts, New Approaches by Baukje van den Berg; Nikos Zagklas is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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The twelfth century was one of the most fertile periods in Byzantine literary history and this volume is the first to focus exclusively on its abundant poetic production. It explores the broader sociocultural tendencies that shaped twelfth-century literature in both prose and verse by examining the school as an important venue for the composition and use of texts written in verse, by shedding new light on the relationship between poetry, patronage and power, and by offering the first editions an
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Baukje van den Berg; Nikos Zagklas
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781009467322
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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