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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
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • 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
 
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.