Byzantine culture in translation /
Byzantine culture in translation /
edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil.
- 1 online resource.
- Byzantina Australiensia, v. 21 0725-3079 ; .
- Byzantina Australiensia 21. Byzantina Australiensia Online, Supplement 2018, ISBN: 9789004393271. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Narrating the Reign of Constantine in Byzantine Chronicles / Breaking Down Barriers: Eunuchs in Italy and North Africa, 400–620 / The Orient Express: Abbot John’s Rapid Trip from Constantinople to Ravenna c. ad 700 / Bang For His Buck: Dioscorides as a Gift of the Tenth-Century Byzantine Court / Nikephoros Phokas as Superhero / Byzantine Religious Tales in Latin Translation: The Work of John of Amalfi / Translations from Greek into Latin and Arabic during the Middle Ages: Searching for the Classical Tradition / A Web of Translations: Planudes in Search of Human Reason / Translating Dorotheus of Gaza: From Gaza to Humanist Europe / The Translation of Constantinople from Byzantine to Ottoman, as Revealed by the Lorck Prospect of the City / Byzantium after Byzantium? Two Greek Writers in Seventeenth-Century Wallachia / Yeats’s Two Byzantiums / Conclusion: Translating Byzantium in the New Millennium / General Index. Amelia Brown -- Roger Scott -- Michael Edward Stewart -- Ann Moffatt -- Yvette Hunt -- John Burke -- John Duffy -- Maria Mavroudi -- Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides -- Michael Champion -- Nigel Westbrook and Rene Van Meeuwen -- Alfred Vincent -- Penelope Buckley -- Bronwen Neil --
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This collection on Byzantine culture in translation, edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil, examines the practices and theories of translation inside the Byzantine empire and beyond its horizons to the east, north and west. The time span is from Late Antiquity to the present day. Translations studied include hagiography, history, philosophy, poetry, architecture and science, between Greek, Latin, Arabic and other languages. These chapters build upon presentations given at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, convened by the editors at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia on 28-30 November 2014. Contributors include: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Amelia Brown, Penelope Buckley, John Burke, Michael Champion, John Duffy, Yvette Hunt, Maria Mavroudi, Ann Moffatt, Bronwen Neil, Roger Scott, Michael Edward Stewart, Rene Van Meeuwen, Alfred Vincent, and Nigel Westbrook.
9789004349070
10.1163/9789004349070 DOI
2017034076
Translating and interpreting--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.
Translating and interpreting--Social aspects--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.
Literature and culture--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.
Byzantine Empire--Civilization--Congresses.
P306.8.B97
418/.0209495
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Narrating the Reign of Constantine in Byzantine Chronicles / Breaking Down Barriers: Eunuchs in Italy and North Africa, 400–620 / The Orient Express: Abbot John’s Rapid Trip from Constantinople to Ravenna c. ad 700 / Bang For His Buck: Dioscorides as a Gift of the Tenth-Century Byzantine Court / Nikephoros Phokas as Superhero / Byzantine Religious Tales in Latin Translation: The Work of John of Amalfi / Translations from Greek into Latin and Arabic during the Middle Ages: Searching for the Classical Tradition / A Web of Translations: Planudes in Search of Human Reason / Translating Dorotheus of Gaza: From Gaza to Humanist Europe / The Translation of Constantinople from Byzantine to Ottoman, as Revealed by the Lorck Prospect of the City / Byzantium after Byzantium? Two Greek Writers in Seventeenth-Century Wallachia / Yeats’s Two Byzantiums / Conclusion: Translating Byzantium in the New Millennium / General Index. Amelia Brown -- Roger Scott -- Michael Edward Stewart -- Ann Moffatt -- Yvette Hunt -- John Burke -- John Duffy -- Maria Mavroudi -- Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides -- Michael Champion -- Nigel Westbrook and Rene Van Meeuwen -- Alfred Vincent -- Penelope Buckley -- Bronwen Neil --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
This collection on Byzantine culture in translation, edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil, examines the practices and theories of translation inside the Byzantine empire and beyond its horizons to the east, north and west. The time span is from Late Antiquity to the present day. Translations studied include hagiography, history, philosophy, poetry, architecture and science, between Greek, Latin, Arabic and other languages. These chapters build upon presentations given at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, convened by the editors at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia on 28-30 November 2014. Contributors include: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Amelia Brown, Penelope Buckley, John Burke, Michael Champion, John Duffy, Yvette Hunt, Maria Mavroudi, Ann Moffatt, Bronwen Neil, Roger Scott, Michael Edward Stewart, Rene Van Meeuwen, Alfred Vincent, and Nigel Westbrook.
9789004349070
10.1163/9789004349070 DOI
2017034076
Translating and interpreting--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.
Translating and interpreting--Social aspects--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.
Literature and culture--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.
Byzantine Empire--Civilization--Congresses.
P306.8.B97
418/.0209495