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Title Details:
Byzantine Hymnography
Other Titles: Theory and an Anthology of Texts
Authors: Zervoudaki, Alexandra
Subject: HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > POETRY > RELIGIOUS POETRY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > RELIGIOUS LITERATURE
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > RELIGIOUS LITERATURE > CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY > BYZANTINE PHILOLOGY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PERFORMING ARTS > MUSIC > MUSICOLOGY > HYMNOLOGY
Keywords:
Hymnography
Hymn
Religion
Kanon
Kontakion
Hymnographer
Ode
Romanos the Melodist
Melodic hymnographers
Postmelodic hymnographers
Liturgical poetry
Chant
Andrew of Crete
Dohn Damascenus/ John of Damascus
Kosmas Maiouma/ Kosmas the Melodist
Germanos patriarch I
Theodoros Studites/Theodore of Stoudios
Theophanes Graptos
Theophanes of Sicily
Joseph the hymnographer
George of Nicomedia
Photius patriarch
John Mauropou
Description:
Abstract:
The book, which is devided in nine chapters and two appendices, presents the basic elements of Byzantine Hymnography, i.e. liturgical poetry, from the first hymns, to which a brief mention is made, to the original creations of the Byzantine era, the hymnographic genres of the apogee of hymnography, i.e. the Kontakion and the Canon. For these two kinds of hymns a relatively detailed presentation of their characteristics as well as the various theories related to their birth, establishment and presentation is made. At the same time, the most important representatives of the genres and translated and annotated excerpts from some of their important works are presented. The work of Romanos the Melodist has a special place in this collection, to whom two chapters (3 and 4) are dedicated. In a separate chapter (chapter 5) the presentation of the most important kontakion, the Akathistos Hymn, is made. The second large part of the book consists of four chapters and is dedicated to the textual genre of the Canon. The first of these (chap. 6) is dedicated to the theory related to the Canon (characteristics, birth, use, etc.), while the next three chapters present the most important Byzantine canon writers and excerpts from their works. The most extensive of these is chapter 8 in which the most important hymn writers of the apogee of the genre (9th-10th centuries) are presented. The content of the book closes with two appendices, the first of which briefly presents the most important Byzantine female hymn writer, Cassia, while the second is the glossary of the manual.
Linguistic Editors: Kioseoglou, Nerina
Graphic Editors: Stathi, Efthymia
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 10-02-2024
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-228-202-1
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-437
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/12494
Bibliographic Reference: Zervoudaki, A. (2024). Byzantine Hymnography [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-437
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. Religious-Christian poetry and its genres - The content of Byzantine Hymnography
2. The Kontakion
3. Romanos the Melodist
4. Romanos the Medolist - Selection of texts
5. The Akathist Hymn
6. The Canon
7. The birth of the Canon and the first great canon writers
8. Important hymn writers of the acme
9. Other important hymn writers of the Middle and Late Byzantine period
Number of pages 478
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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