Description
The first comprehensive introduction in English to books, readers and reading in Byzantium and the wider medieval world surrounding it.
About the Author
Teresa Shawcross is Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, New Jersey. Interested in the pre-modern book, she has studied the materiality of manuscripts, the role of authors, translators and scribes, and the interplay between literacy and orality. Publications include: The Chronicle of Morea: Historiography in Crusader Greece (2009). Ida Toth is Senior Instructor and Lecturer, and Research Fellow at University of Oxford. She convenes graduate courses in Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, and Byzantine Epigraphy. She has published on inscriptional culture and court rhetoric, and on the transmission of the Life of Aesop and the Book of Syntipas the Philosopher.
Reviews
'Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond is packed with Byzantine scholarship. Its wide range of topics extends from the very first steps of the educational procedure to the results of the Byzantine intellectuality, even outside the empire's borders. It will be a valuable source for specialized researchers as well as an excellent introductory tool for any scholar interested in the Byzantine universe of books and literature.' Elias Petrou, Digital Philology
'Scholars and interested readers will find a wide range of texts with extensive and informative notes and a lengthy bibliography.' S. Bowman, Choice
Book Information
ISBN 9781108406031
Author Teresa Shawcross
Format Paperback
Page Count 744
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1060g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 151mm * 37mm