TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cuomo,Andrea Massimo
TI  - 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 
T2  - Byzantinisches Archiv : Als Ergänzung zur Byzantinischen Zeitschrift ,
SN  - 9781501510908
AV  - BX101 .I536 2016
U1  - 949.5040924 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Military art and science
KW  - Belagerung
KW  - Geschichte / 1422
KW  - Konstantinopel
KW  - Ottomanen
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Byzantine and Ottoman History
KW  - John Kananos
KW  - Medieval Greek
KW  - Warfare
N1  - Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Contents --; Works cited in abbreviation --; 1. Introduction --; 2. The Manuscript Tradition and Ratio Edendi --; 2.1 The Manuscripts --; 2.2 Ratio Edendi. The present edition --; 2.3 Punctuation --; 2.4 Apparatus --; 2.5 The language of Kananos: An overview --; Critical edition and English translation --; Thesaurus --; Plates; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502880
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501502880
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501502880/original
ER  -