5.24 FC – The Afterlife of Byzantine Texts in Other Cultures

Les sept discours parénétiques de l’empereur Manuel Palaiologos, également connus sous le titre d’Orationes ethico-politicae, ont été conservés, partiellement ou intégralement, dans sept manuscrits. Parmi eux, quatre codices, contenant presque la totalité du texte, datent du XVe siècle: les manuscrits viennois Phil. Gr. 042 et Phil. Gr. 98, le Codex Vaticanus Gr. 632, ainsi que…

This paper explores the parallels between book epigrams in Byzantine lexica and the New Ancient Greek liminary poems in the Glossarium Graecobarbarum by Lowlandish humanist Johannes Meursius (1579–1639). I will examine the various similarities and differences between these Byzantine and early modern epigrams in terms of social context, content, metre, and linguistic characteristics. The spread…

Byzantine princess Anna Komnene, born in the Porphyra chamber, has gained popularity in Japan since 2019. This trend began with the publication of the first Japanese translation of her work, “Alexiad”, by Byzantinist Yozo Aino, in November 2019. The release of Koichi Inoue’s monograph on Anna Komnene in July 2020 further solidified her growing reputation….

The study explores the intricate interplay between oral tradition, theological discourse, and literary adaptation by examining the understudied influence of Gregory of Nazianzus’ Oration 24 on Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s El mágico prodigioso (1637). While Calderón’s comedia de santos has often been linked to folkloric sources like Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea or Antonio…