Brill A Companion to Byzantine Poetry: 4 (Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World, 4)

Product Description This book offers the first complete survey of the Byzantine poetic production (4th to 15th centuries). It examines the use of poetry in various sociocultural settings in Constantinople and various other centres of the Byzantine empire. About the Author Wolfram Hörandner, Ph.D. (1966), University of Vienna, is Emeritus Professor of Byzantine literature. He has published extensively on Byzantine poetry. His main publications are the edition of Theodore Prodromos historical poems and the study of the Byzantine prose rhythm. Andreas Rhoby, PD Ph.D. (2000), University of Vienna, works at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he is deputy head of the Division of Byzantine Research. He is also Privatdozent at the University of Vienna. His major publication is the 4-volume corpus on Byzantine inscriptional epigrams. Nikos Zagklas, Ph.D. (2014), University of Vienna, is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna. He has published on Theodore Prodromos and Byzantine poetry (especially of the 12th century).