Ioannis Canani de Constantinopolitana obsidione relatio
A Critical Edition, with English Translation, Introduction, and Notes of John Kananos' Account of the Siege of Constantinople in 1422, Engl/griech, Byzantinisches Archiv 30
Erschienen am
10.05.2016, 1. Auflage 2016
Bibliografische Daten
ISBN/EAN: 9781501510908
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: LXXIV, 108 S., 3 s/w Illustr., 3 farbige Illustr.,
Format (T/L/B): 1.5 x 24.6 x 17.7 cm
Einband: gebundenes Buch
Beschreibung
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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Autorenportrait
Andrea Massimo Cuomo, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Studies, Vienna, Austria.
