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At Whom Are We Laughing?
They say that laughter is a purely human phenomenon, so exclusively ours that we brook no intruders except, of course, for the laughing hyena, the laughing jackass (officially known as the kookaburra bird of Australia), laughing matters, laughing gas, or the perennial laughing stock. But what is humor, that funny thing so varied in its colors and tones, so encompassing in its themes, so different from time to time and place to place? And when we poke fun, at whom are we really laughing? At Whom Are We Laughing? Humor in Romance Language Literatures is the selective product of a multi-national gathering of scholars sponsored by Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, to explore humor acros...
Poetry in Late Byzantium
The late Byzantine period (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) was marked by both cultural fecundity and political fragmentation, resulting in an astonishingly multifaceted literary output. This book addresses the poetry of the empire’s final quarter-millennium from a broad perspective, bringing together studies on texts originating in places from Crete to Constantinople and from court to school, treating topics from humanist antiquarianism to pious self-help, and written in styles from the vernacular to Homeric language. It thus offers a reference work to a much-neglected but rich textual material that is as varied as it was potent in the sociocultural contexts of its times. Contributors are Theodora Antonopoulou, Marina Bazzani, Julián Bértola, Martin Hinterberger, Krystina Kubina, Marc D. Lauxtermann, Florin Leonte, Ugo Mondini, Brendan Osswald, Giulia M. Paoletti, Cosimo Paravano, Daniil Pleshak, Alberto Ravani, and Federica Scognamiglio.
Animal Kingdom of Heaven
Millennium transcends boundaries – between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the Millennium-Jahrbuch, the journal Millennium-Studien pursues an international, interdisciplinary approach that cuts across historical eras. Composed of scholars from various disciplines, the editorial and advisory boards welcome submissions from a range of fields, including history, literary studies, art history, theology, and philosophy. Millennium-Studien also accepts manuscripts on Latin, Greek, and Oriental cultures. In addition to offering a forum for monographs and edited collections on diverse topics, Millennium-Studien publishes commentaries and editions. The journal primary accepts publ...
Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy
Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in Italy during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dante’s masterpiece. The Middle Ages in Italy offer a wealth of vernacular poetic invectives—polemical verses aimed at blaming specific wrongdoings of an individual, group, city or institution— that are both understudied and rarely juxtaposed. No study has yet provided a scholarly examination of the connection between this medieval invective tradition, and its elements of humor, derision, and reprehension in Dante’s Comedy. This book argues that these comic texts ...
East and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century
East and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century examines the (dis)unity of the Roman Empire in the fourth century from different angles, in order to offer a broad perspective on the topic and avoid an overvaluation of the political division of the empire in 395. After a methodological key-paper on the concepts of unity, the other contributors elaborate on these notions from various geo-political perspectives: the role of the army and taxation, geographical perspectives, the unity of the Church and the perception of the divisio regni of 364. Four case-studies follow, illuminating the role of concordia apostolorum, antique sports, eunuchs and the poet Prudentius on the late antique view of the Empire. Despite developments to the contrary, it appears that the Roman Empire remained (to be viewed as) a unity in all strata of society.
Ethos, Logos, and Perspective
Ethos, Logos, and Perspective represents the first comprehensive study of late Byzantine court rhetorical praise as a general phenomenon surfacing in many types of rhetorical epideictic compositions dating from the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries: panegyrics, encomia, city descriptions, encomiastic verses, or letters. The aim of this book is to reconstruct the two perspectives, idealism and pragmatism, that shaped authorial choices in matters of rhetorical style and composition. This study uncovers a little-known period in the history of Byzantine rhetoric. Proceeding from a nuanced understanding of the ancient concepts of ethos and logos, it analyzes the rhetoric of Byzantine praise ...
Patristic Theories of Biblical Interpretation
This volume offers a thorough analysis of Latin patristic hermeneutics, covering early church authors who explicitly discussed the subject.
Amour et amitié
La collection Cultures antiques est une invitation à parcourir le domaine fondamental de l’Antiquité gréco-romaine et des oeuvres que nous ont léguées les Anciens, à la faveur d’une question choisie : c’est autour du thème de culture antique donné à l’étude en hypokhâgne et khâgne qu’elle rassemble une série d’articles réunissant professeurs des universités et des classes préparatoires de différentes spécialités. Elle propose ainsi aux étudiants, qu’ils soient néophytes, initiés ou bien déjà familiarisés avec la culture antique, des analyses récentes et claires appliquées à un large corpus de textes pour une meilleure compréhension et un plus grand plaisir de la connaissance.
Der Tumult der Anfänge und das Versickern am Ende
Ist das Neue in der Literaturgeschichte tatsächlich notwendig durch die Absetzung von etablierten Gattungstraditionen zu erklären? Bilden normsprengende Neuerungen in der Literatur und die normative Struktur einer literarischen Gattung notwendig Gegensätze? Welche Rolle spielen Referenztexte sowohl in der Konstitution einer literarischen Gattung wie auch ihrer Überwindung? Der vorliegende Band, der aus der Arbeit der Forschungsgruppe 2305 ‚Diskursivierungen von Neuem‘ und einer von ihr veranstalteten Tagung hervorgegangen ist, will herkömmliche lineare Erzählungen der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung in Frage stellen und in exemplarischen Fallstudien zeigen, wie Gattungen durch komple...
