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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 / ed. by Andrea Massimo Cuomo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Byzantinisches Archiv : Als Ergänzung zur Byzantinischen Zeitschrift ; 30Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (LXXIV, 108 p.) : including 6 platesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501510908
  • 9781501502903
  • 9781501502880
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 949.5040924 23
LOC classification:
  • BX101 .I536 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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