Epistulae by Michael Psellus

Epistulae by Michael Psellus

The two volumes offer the first critical edition of the entire letter-collection of Michael Psellos; a total of 563 texts, including spuria, rewritings, and excerpts. Psellos (11th c., Constantinople) is a well-known figure among students of Byzantine culture and arguably the most prolific and influential middle Byzantine learned author. His letter-collection, preserved in 53 Byzantine and post-Byzantine manuscripts, grants us glimpses into the lives of well-known but also everyday Byzantines, sheding light upon Constantinopolitan networks of friendship and power and, more importantly, upon habits of rhetorical craftsmanship, literary imagination, and typologies of self.

Stratis Papaioannou is Professor of Byzantine Philology at the University of Crete. His previous publications include Michael Psellos: Rhetoric and Authorship in Byzantium and, as editor and translator, Christian Novels from the Menologion of Symeon Metaphrastes.

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ISBN 13	9783110622010
ISBN 10	3110622017
Title	Epistulae
Author	Stratis Papaioannou
Series	Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	De Gruyter
Year published	2019-10-21
Number of pages	1392
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