Byzantine Poetry in the 'Long' Twelfth Century: Book Presentation and Lecture, Austrian Academy of Sciences, June 17, 2019, 6:00 pm

An evening dedicated to the poetry of the "long" twelfth century, organized by the FWF Project "Byzantine Poetry in the ‘Long’ Twelfth Century (1081–1204): Texts and Contexts."

Welcome
Andreas Rhoby, Project Leader, Byzantine Poetry in the ‘Long’ Twelfth Century (1081–1204): Texts and Contexts

Presentation of Three New Books on Byzantine Poetry: W.HÖRANDNER – A. RHOBY – N. ZAGKLAS (eds.), Companion to Byzantine Poetry (Brill), A. RHOBY – N. ZAGKLAS (eds.), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry, Texts and Contexts (Brepols), A. PAUL – A. RHOBY, Konstantinos Manasses, Verschronik, deutsche Übersetz ung (Hiersemann)
Claudia Rapp

Introductions
Nikos Zagklas, Byzantine Poetry in the ‘Long’ Twelfth Century (1081–1204): Texts and Contexts

Manganeios Prodromos and His 148 Poems
Elizabeth Jeffreys and Michael Jeffreys
Michael Jeffreys will begin with a list of the many different events, campaigns, geographical areas, ceremonies, genres etc. to which the poems of Manganeios Prodromos make their characteristically long-winded and vague allusions, with some examples of the light which the poet throws on them. Elizabeth Jeffreys will then become much more specific, examining MP15 (using the numbering in Marc. gr. XI.22), which discusses some details of the author’s poetic training and techniques; as with much of the corpus, only a few fragments of this poem were published carelessly in the nineteenth century.

Discussion
Moderated by Baukje van den Berg, Byzantine Poetry in the ‘Long’ Twelfth Century (1081–1204): Texts and Contexts