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050 4 $aDF951.T45$bR87 2013
100 1 $aRussell, Eugenia,$d1976-$eauthor.
245 10 $aLiterature and culture in Late Byzantine Thessalonica /$cEugenia Russell.
264 1 $aLondon :$bBloomsbury Publishing,$c2013.
300 $axxix, 201 pages :$billustrations, maps, music ;$c25 cm
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338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
546 $aEnglish and Greek.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrologue: Where is Thessalonica? -- Setting the scene -- Byzantine hymnography as a signifier of civic identity in Thessalonica -- Legacies of the Thessalonian Byzantine court -- Auxiliary materials.
520 $a"The 'long' fourteenth century perhaps can be seen as Thessalonica's heyday. Alongside its growing commercial prowess, the city was developing into an important centre of government, where members of the Byzantine imperial family of the Palaiologoi ruled independently under full imperial titles, striking coinage and following an increasingly autonomous external policy. It was also developing into a formidable centre for letters, education, and artistic expression, due in part to Palaiologan patronage. This volume sets out the political and commercial landscape of Thessalonica between 1303 and 1430, when the city fell to the Ottoman Turks, before focusing on the literary and hymnographical aspects of the city's cultural history and its legacy. The cosmopolitan nature of urban life in Thessalonica, the polyphony of opinions it experienced and expressed, its multiple links with centres such as Constantinople, Adrianople, Athos, Lemnos and Lesvos, and the diversity and strength of its authorial voices make the study of the city's cultural life a vital part of our understanding of the Byzantine Eastern Mediterranean"--$cBack cover.
651 0 $aThessalonikē (Greece)$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aClassical philology.
650 0 $aGreek literature$xHistory and criticism.
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