Ioannis Canani de Constantinopolitana obsidione relatio A Critical Edition with English Translati
by Ioannis Canani de Constantinopolitana Obsidione Relatio: A Critical Edition, with English Translation, Introduction, and Notes of John Kananos' Accoun
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This volume fills the need for a new critical edition and linguistic study of John Kananos' account of the siege of Constantinople in 1422. New research on the manuscripts has produced a new stemma codicum and shown that the oldest witness of this narrative, Vat. gr. 579 (ff. 355r - 364v), was written in Constantinople and belonged to the prolific scribe Phlamules Kontostephanos, who also provided the copy with a title in which the name of John Kananos is mentioned for the first time. The philological approach adopted here explains contradictions among the manuscripts and Kananos' peculiar vernacularisms and reveals a surprisingly realistic and elaborate Greek. The accompanying English translation, a chapter on the language of Kananos, and a complete thesaurus make this volume a valuable contribution to the study of late Byzantine literature.
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- De Gruyter Brand
- May 10, 2016 Pub Date:
- 9781501510908 ISBN-13:
- 1501510908 ISBN-10:
- 182.0 pages Hardcover
- English Language
- 9.61 in * 0.5 in * 6.69 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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