Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Figures

pp ix-ix

List of Tables

pp x-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xiv

Introduction: Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081–1204)

pp 1-28

Part I - Poetry and Twelfth-Century Literary Culture

pp 29-30

1 - ‘The Force of Discourses’: Literary Production in the Komnenian Era

pp 31-69

2 - Poetry and Theatre in Twelfth-Century Constantinople

pp 70-94

3 - Rethinking the Mixed Style in Twelfth-Century Poetry

pp 95-112

4 - ‘Wishing to Imitate the Poet’: Prose and the Study of Ancient Poetry in the Twelfth Century

pp 113-136

Part II - Poetry and the School

pp 137-138

5 - The Didactic Poetry of Niketas of Herakleia and the Use of Verse in Byzantine Teaching Practice

pp 139-160

6 - Teaching Grammar through Poetry: Tzetzes’ Scholia on the Carmina Iliaca in Context

pp 161-182

7 - Of Mice and Cat: The Katomyomachia as Drama, Parody, School Text and Animal Tale

pp 183-202

8 - On the Roses: Reflections on a Neglected Poem by Nicholas Kallikles (Carm. 29 Romano)

pp 203-222

Part III - Poetry, Patronage and Power

pp 223-224

9 - ‘Receiving Rich Gifts’: Negotiating Power in the Metrical Paratexts of the Vossianus Gr. Q1

pp 225-255

10 - The Poetics of Patronage: Constructing the Image of the Patron in Dedicatory Epigrams in Monumental Painting of the Komnenian Period in Greece

pp 256-282

11 - David as Model for the Emperor and his Poet: Theodore Prodromos and John II Komnenos

pp 283-302

Part IV - New Texts, New Interpretations

pp 303-304

12 - Manganeios Prodromos: His Life and Writings

pp 305-338

13 - An Unedited Cycle of Byzantine Verse Scholia on Herodotus in the Light of Twelfth-Century Verse Scholia on Ancient Historians

pp 339-365

14 - Constantine Manasses’ Astrological Poem: Editorial Problems, Quellenforschung and Cultural Context

pp 366-388

15 - The Learned Bishop and the Unicorn: Michael Choniates, Poem 5 Lampros

pp 389-408

Index

pp 409-418