Project

Poetry from the Margins. Literary, Philological, minguistic and historical analysis of a new corpus of byzantine Book Epigrams (800-1453)

Code

01G03415

Duration

01 January 2015 → 31 October 2020

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Kristoffel Demoen

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Historical theory and methodology
- History
- Language studies
- Linguistics
- Literary studies

Keywords

Greek literature greek palaeography byzantine studies Greek linguistics book history digital humanities medieval studies History Literary studies Linguistics

Project description

Literary, linguistic and historical analysis of a corpus of book epigrams from medieval Greek manuscripts. Unknown texts will be published with a commentary, both in paper version and on-line. The analysis will shed new light on the literary aesthetics of the Byzantine period, the evolution of medieval Greek language, orthography and verse forms, and the socio-historical context of the emergence of books and manuscripts.