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‘Emotions and λόγος ἐνδιάθετος: Πάθη in John Sikeliotes’ commentary on Hermogenes’ On types of style
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Aristocracy and Literary Production in the Tenth Century
No full textTaking as its starting point the figure and work of John Geometra, a poet active in 10th-century Constantinople, the article examines two interrelated phenomena. On the one hand, the author questions whether a literary production of aristocratic and provincial inspiration existed in Byzantium during the period under examination, and proposes to identify traces of it in the Byzantine literature that has come down to us. On the other hand, the research intends to reconstruct how the Constantinopolitan cultural elite active at the Macedonian court was able to translate the ambitions and traditions of this rising social group, expressing them in the language of the 'high' classicizing literature
Emotions through Time: from Antiquity to Byzantium
No full textFrom a comparative perspective, international scholars explore the reception and influence of ancient emotion concepts in Byzantine sources. They also shed new light on the Byzantine emotional universe and its impact on medieval and early modern culture
Fra mito classico ed esegesi biblica (Aen. Gaz., Theophrast., p. 33, 13-19 Colonna). Eracle come Giona
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Bureaucratic discourse, signature and authorship in John Tzetzes: a comparative perspective
Full text linkTaking its cue from the work of John Tzetzes (1110-1185 ca), this paper offers a preliminary survey of the role played by bureaucratic and legal training in defining autography and authorship in 12th-century Byzantium. By comparing archival practices and authorial signatures, it demonstrates that features belonging to the legal discourse could be exploited by intellectuals to reinforce and re-center their voices as well as to overcome social constraints and, at time, marginality. The paper also takes a comparative perspective, by looking at the developments of vernacular poetry in Bologna, Tuscany and Sicily between 13th and 14th century, with a focus on the work of Francesco da Barberino. The comparative stance aims to prove that entanglements between legal/bureaucratic and literary writing are a cross-cultural constant emerging due to similar educational and scribal practices, thus showing that the case of the Italian pre-humanist intellectuals is the rule rather than the exception.Basandosi sull’opera di Giovanni Tzetze (1110-1185 circa), questo contributo offre un’analisi preliminare del ruolo svolto dalle pratiche burocratiche e dalla formazione legale nel definire autografia e autorialità nella Costantinopoli del XII secolo. Mettendo a confronto pratiche archivistiche e firme d’autore, questo articolo dimostra che elementi del discorso legale potevano essere sfruttati dagli intellettuali per rinforzare e mettere al centro la propria voce, superando così i limiti imposti dalle norme sociali e, a volte, la propria marginalità. Questo contributo ha un impianto comparativo, dato che prende anche in esame gli sviluppi della poesia volgare italiana in Sicilia, Bologna e Toscana tra il XIII e il XIV secolo, soffermandosi in particolare sull’opera di Francesco da Barberino. L’approccio comparativo vuole dimostrare che i legami tra scritture burocratiche/legali e scritture letterarie sono una costante transculturale dovuta a pratiche educative e scrittorie simili, mostrando quindi che il caso degli intellettuali italiani del pre-umanesimo è più la regola che l’eccezione
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