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Ioannis Canani de Constantinopolitana obsidione relatio

This volume fills the need for a new critical edition and linguistic study of John Kananos' account of the siege of Constantinople in 1422. New research on the manuscripts has produced a new stemma codicum and shown that the oldest witness of this narrative, Vat. gr. 579 (ff. 355r - 364v), was written in Constantinople and belonged to the prolific scribe Phlamules Kontostephanos, who also provided the copy with a title in which the name of John Kananos is mentioned for the first time. The philological approach adopted here explains contradictions among the manuscripts and Kananos' peculiar vernacularisms and reveals a surprisingly realistic and elaborate Greek. The accompanying English translation, a chapter on the language of Kananos, and a complete thesaurus make this volume a valuable contribution to the study of late Byzantine literature.
EAN: 9781501510908
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 182
Produktart: Gebunden
Herausgeber: Cuomo, Andrea Massimo
Verlag: De Gruyter Walter de Gruyter
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10.05.2016
Untertitel: A Critical Edition, with English Translation, Introduction, and Notes of John Kananos' Account of the Siege of Constantinople in 1422
Schlagworte: Altertum Antike Europa / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte Istanbul / Konstantinopel Konstantinopel Mittelalter Europa / Osteuropa Osten / Osteuropa Osteuropa
Größe: 16 × 175 × 246
Gewicht: 498 g