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Ioannis Canani de Constantinopolitana obsidione relatio : a critical edition, with english translation, introduction, and notes of John Kananos' account of the Siege of Constantinople in 1422 / edited by Andreas Massimo Cuomo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Byzantinisches Archiv ; Band 30.Publisher: Boston, [Massachusetts] ; Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (182 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501502880 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ioannis Canani de Constantinopolitana obsidione relatio : a critical edition, with english translation, introduction, and notes of John Kananos' account of the Siege of Constantinople in 1422.DDC classification:
  • 949.5040924 23
LOC classification:
  • BX101 .I536 2016
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This volume fills the need for a new critical edition and linguistic study of John Kananos' account of the siege of Constantinople in 1422. New research on the manuscripts has produced a new stemma codicum and shown that the oldest witness of this narrative, Vat. gr. 579 (ff. 355r - 364v), was written in Constantinople and belonged to the prolific scribe Phlamules Kontostephanos, who also provided the copy with a title in which the name of John Kananos is mentioned for the first time. The philological approach adopted here explains contradictions among the manuscripts and Kananos' peculiar vernacularisms and reveals a surprisingly realistic and elaborate Greek. The accompanying English translation, a chapter on the language of Kananos, and a complete thesaurus make this volume a valuable contribution to the study of late Byzantine literature.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 24, 2016).

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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