Byzantine culture in translation /
"This collection on Byzantine culture in translation, edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil, examines the practices and theories of translation inside the Byzantine empire and beyond its horizons to the east, north and west. The time span is from Late Antiquity to the present day. Translation...
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2017]
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| Series: | Byzantina Australiensia Ser.
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| Online Access: | Full text (Emerson users only) Full text (Emmanuel users only) Full text (NECO users only) Full text (MCPHS users only) Full text (Wentworth users only) |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Narrating the Reign of Constantine in Byzantine Chronicles; Chapter 2 Breaking Down Barriers: Eunuchs in Italy and North Africa, 400-620; Chapter 3 The Orient Express: Abbot John's Rapid Trip from Constantinople to Ravenna c. AD 700; Chapter 4 Bang For His Buck: Dioscorides as a Gift of the Tenth-Century Byzantine Court; Chapter 5 Nikephoros Phokas as Superhero; Chapter 6 Byzantine Religious Tales in Latin Translation: The Work of John of Amalfi.
- Chapter 7 Translations from Greek into Latin and Arabic during the Middle Ages: Searching for the Classical TraditionChapter 8 A Web of Translations: Planudes in Search of Human Reason; Chapter 9 Translating Dorotheus of Gaza: From Gaza to Humanist Europe; Chapter 10 The Translation of Constantinople from Byzantine to Ottoman, as Revealed by the Lorck Prospect of the City; Chapter 11 Byzantium after Byzantium? Two Greek Writers in Seventeenth-century Wallachia; Chapter 12 Yeats's Two Byzantiums; Conclusion: Translating Byzantium in the New Millennium; General Index.