Bücher der Reihe Byzantinisches Archiv

Der Band ist dem literarischen und kunstästhetischen Werk des Theodoros Metochites gewidmet. Im Zentrum stehen die Miscellanea und Ethikos oder über die Bildung, die Lobreden auf Nikaia (Exilhauptstadt) und Konstantinopel sowie die Umgestaltung der Chora-Kirche. Dabei werden byzantinische Raumdarstellungen in den Blick genommen wie auch die interdisziplinären Verhältnisse der frühen Palaiologenzeit zum ausgehenden westlichen Spätmittelalter.

Das Buch stellt somit die erste umfassende Studie dar. Die Einleitung bietet zunächst eine eingehende Auseinandersetzung mit der handschriftlichen Überlieferung. Dann findet man darin Abschnitte zur Metrik und Sprache sowie zur Technik der Umarbeitung des originalen Psalmentexts durch Philes. Darüber hinaus wird die Metaphrase in das übrige literarische Schaffen des Autors eingebettet. Im Zentrum des Buches steht die erste kritische Gesamtausgabe der Metaphrase (ca. 3.500 Verse), wobei der originale Psalmentext synoptisch angeordnet ist. Dieser wird auch die mittelalterlichen Varianten der Überlieferung aufweisen. Im Kommentar werden philologische und inhaltliche Besonderheiten diskutiert. Das Buch bietet nicht nur die erste Gesamtedition eines bislang kaum bekannten Texts, sondern versteht sich auch als wichtiger Beitrag für das Studium der Psalmenüberlieferung im griechischen Mittelalter.

Among the many versions of the Alexander Romance originating from Alexandria (3rd century AD) the long Byzantine Alexander Poem takes a special place. It is transmitted in only one miscellaneous manuscript, Ms. Marcianus Graecus 408, and contains 6130 'political' (fifteen-syllable) verses. Thisedition presents a new criticaltext of the Byzantine Alexander Poem with an introduction and an extensive commentary.

The Monastery of Pantokrator, founded by John II Komnenos and his wife Piroska-Irene, is not only one of the most important and most impressive monastic complexes of the Komnenian age, it is also one of the few to occupy a key position in the life of Constantinople in the Palaiologan age, given that its mortuary chapel (Heroon) was also the last resting place of many members of the latter dynasty. The first attempt to chronicle its history, based on the texts known at the time, was undertaken by G. Moravscik (1932). Interest was rekindled by P. Gautier¿s critical edition of its Typikon (1971), and more recently by restoration work on its buildings. This volume brings together a comprehensive selection of all the texts concerning or connected with the Monastery of Pantokrator, and through them it demonstrates the Monastery¿s importance and its role throughout the history of the Byzantine Empire¿a role that has received insufficient attention, given that older studies have tended to focus on the 12th century. The texts cover the situation in Constantinople before the Monastery was founded, the historical and cultural context within which it was established, its Typikon (monastic formulary), the descriptions of Slav and Western travellers, the Byzantine texts (homiletic, historical, hagiographic, and poetic) relating to the Monastery and its history from the 12th to the 15th century, the Byzantine officials associated with it, and the celebration of the principal festivals in its churches. It also contains critical editions of and commentaries on the two versions of the Synaxarion of Irene Komnene, a speech referring to the Empress¿s associate in the construction of the Monastery, another on the translation of the icon of St. Demetrios from the Church of St. Demetrios in Thessalonica to the Monastery of Pantokrator, an Office of the Translation of the Holy Stone, the verse Synaxarion composed for the consecration of the Monastery, and the known and unpublished poems by Byzantine poets (12th-15th c.) relating to it, as well as an extensive bibliography.

This annotated critical edition presents the epigrams of the Byzantine scholar Maximus Planudes. Due to the absence of a critical edition of almost all Maximus Planudes' epigrams as well as of a methodical commentary or a systematic review of their thematic, lexical, stylistic and metrical features, this study aims to elucidate the least recognised facet of the literary work of one of the most important scholar of the Palaiologan Renaissance.

The late Byzantine age, from the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 to the fall of the last independent Greek territories to the Ottomans in 1461, was not only a period of political decline, but also of intensive cultural activity. The essays assembled in this volume discuss the works and lives of various authors (Nikephoros and Theodoros Xanthopoulos, Theodoros Metochites, Nikephoros Gregoras and Manuel Philes), they investigate issues such as ancient Greek and contemporary Western influences on the literary production, and discuss themes of material culture and, with a clear focus on Constantinople, of social, administrative and economical history.

Contains articles on Byzantine literature written in honour of W Horander. This book focuses on his research interests, epigrams and the literature of the Comnenan period, as well as the history of literary motifs, rhetoric and questions of literary language. It includes articles written in German, English, French and Italian.

Die vorliegende Publikation beschäftigt sich mit den Lehnwörtern, die sich in 18 spätbyzantinischen Historien und Chroniken befinden. Um die lexikalischen Interferenzen im Wortschatz der spätbyzantinischen historiographischen Literatur zu analysieren wurden alle Wörter (außer Toponyma und Eigennamen) erfasst, die einen Sprachkontakt belegen. Besonderer Akzent wurde auf den soziolinguistischen Kontext der benutzten Wörter gelegt.

Das Byzantinische Archiv ist die Begleitreihe derByzantinischen Zeitschrift und umfasst sowohl Monographien als auch Sammelbande. Es bietet ein Forum fur Editionen, Kommentare sowie vertiefende Studien zu Einzelaspekten aus dem Bereich der Byzantinistik. Literatur, Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte einschlielich der damit verbundenen Neben- und Randdisziplinen sind gleichermaen vertreten.

An annotated critical edition of an unpublished collection of hymnographical texts, preserved in the 11th-12th-century Greek manuscript 11 of the library of Leimonos monastery, Lesbos, Greece.