Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081–1204)
- Part I Poetry and Twelfth-Century Literary Culture
- Part II Poetry and the School
- Part III Poetry, Patronage and Power
- Part IV New Texts, New Interpretations
- 12 Manganeios Prodromos: His Life and Writings
- 13 An Unedited Cycle of Byzantine Verse Scholia on Herodotus in the Light of Twelfth-Century Verse Scholia on Ancient Historians
- 14 Constantine Manasses’ Astrological Poem: Editorial Problems, Quellenforschung and Cultural Context
- 15 The Learned Bishop and the Unicorn: Michael Choniates, Poem 5 Lampros
- Index
14 - Constantine Manasses’ Astrological Poem: Editorial Problems, Quellenforschung and Cultural Context
from Part IV - New Texts, New Interpretations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 October 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081–1204)
- Part I Poetry and Twelfth-Century Literary Culture
- Part II Poetry and the School
- Part III Poetry, Patronage and Power
- Part IV New Texts, New Interpretations
- 12 Manganeios Prodromos: His Life and Writings
- 13 An Unedited Cycle of Byzantine Verse Scholia on Herodotus in the Light of Twelfth-Century Verse Scholia on Ancient Historians
- 14 Constantine Manasses’ Astrological Poem: Editorial Problems, Quellenforschung and Cultural Context
- 15 The Learned Bishop and the Unicorn: Michael Choniates, Poem 5 Lampros
- Index
Summary
This chapter deals with Constantine Manasses’ Astrological Poem. The first section discusses the editorial problems of the work, in the light of Emmanuel Miller’s edition and the new data that the poem’s enriched manuscript tradition has to offer. The second section traces and presents some of Manasses’ possible sources. The third section delineates the cultural milieu in which the poem was composed, which includes Manasses’ association with the circle of sebastokratorissa Irene, as well as the poem’s (possible) relation to other relevant works written during the reign of Manuel I Komnenos – one of them by none other than the emperor himself.
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- Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204)New Texts, New Approaches, pp. 366 - 388Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024