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Project

Book epigrams from meieval greek manuscripts. Compilation of an unexplored corpus and creation of a asearchable database

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

19103410

Duration

01 July 2010 → 31 December 2015

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Kristoffel Demoen

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- History
- Language studies
- Linguistics
- Literary studies

Keywords

medieval cultural history Greek linguistics Greek literature Byzantine philology Middle Ages Paratexts Literary studies

Project description

Creation of a corpus of book epigrams from Byzantine manuscripts. The corpus will be made available on-line. Unknown texts will be published with a commentary. Analysis of the material will eventually shed new light on the literary aesthetics of the period, the evolution of Byzantine language, orthography and verse forms, and the socio-historical context of book emergence.

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