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The Byzantine Novel Archive 2002
by C. Jouanno
| CONFERENCE ACTA | EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS | TWELFTH-CENTURY NOVELS | VERNACULAR NOVELS | FORTHCOMING |CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED | Les personnages du roman grec, éd. B. Pouderon - C. Hunzinger - D. Kasprzyk, Collection de la Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen 29, Lyon, 2001: includes papers about the 12th-century novel, Digenis Akritas and the Achilleid. V. infra Jouanno, Labarthe-Postel, Théologitis, Lassithiotakis. EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS
V. Eustathios Macrembolites (Marcovich), Belthandros (Egea), The
Old Knight (Rizzo Nervo). BARLAAM AND IOASAPH E. Khintibidze, «New Material on the Origin of Barlaam and
Ioasaph», Orientalia Christiana Periodica 63, 1997, 491-501. TWELFTH-CENTURY NOVELS
C. Jouanno, «Les jeunes filles dans le roman byzantin du XIIe
siècle», in Les personnages du roman grec, 329-346 : although
strongly influenced by the typology of the ancient novel, the way girls
are portrayed in 12th-century works is evidence of specifically
Byzantine concerns. J. Labarthe-Postel, «Hommes et dieux dans les ekphraseis des
romans byzantins du temps des Comnène», in Les personnages du roman
grec, 347-371 : twelfth-century novelists use ekphraseis to
claim their belonging to both cultures, the ancient and the Christian
one ; their practice of description must be brought together with the
Byzantine mystical conception of image. F. Meunier, Roman et société à Byzance au XIIème siècle,
Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, Lille, 1999 (dissertation) : in
spite of its title, the work is mostly devoted to a literary analysis of
the 12th-century novels (structure, motifs, style). -, «La rhétorique dans les romans byzantins du XIIe siècle :
besogne ou plaisir ?», Erytheia 21, 2000, 51-71 : chapter drawn
from Meunier's dissertation, Roman et société ; the author
reviews the various rhetorical figures used by the 12th-century
novelists. EUSTATHIOS MACREMBOLITES A. Billault, review of I. Nilsson, Erotic Pathos (v. infra),
in REG 114, 2001, 728-729. M. Marcovich, Eustathios Macrembolites. De Hysmines et Hysminiae
amoribus libri XI, Teuner, Munich-Leipzig, 2001 : in the
introduction of his new edition of the novel, Marcovich tackles with the
much debated question of the datation of the text ; according to him the
presence in Macrembolites of borrowings from Prodromos' novel and from
Basilakes' monody about his brother's death (a. 1157) implies that HH
is later than RD ; Macrembolites would be contemporary with
Manuel I (contra Agapitos, «Poets and Painters» : see PSN
2000). I. Nilsson, Erotic Pathos, Rhetorical Pleasure. Narrative
Technique and Mimesis in Eumathios Makrembolites' Hysmine &
Hysminias, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Byzantina
Upsaliensia 7, Uppsala, 2001 : the first extensive literary study of a
Byzantine novel of the 12th century. THEODOROS PRODROMOS R.D. Dawe, «Notes on Theodoros Prodromos' Rhodanthe and Dosikles
and Nikephoros Eugenianos' Drosilla and Charikles», BZ
94/1, 2001, 11-19 : suggestions on the text of Prodromos' and
Eugenianos' novels. NICETAS EUGENIANOS R.D. Dawe : v. supra U. Moennig, «The Late Byzantine Romance : Problems of Defining a Genre»,  . Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek 7,
1999, 1-20 : discussing the traditional division of late-Byzantine
romances into "original romances" and "adaptations of
western romances", Moennig underlines the range of flexibility of
what is still a «non-defined, open, and developing genre» ; he insists
upon the biographical setting as an important criterion to take into
account when studying texts of the kind.
DIGENIS AKRITAS G. Bonelli, review of P. Odorico, Digenis Akritas : poema anonimo bizantino, Firenze, 1995, in Atene e Roma 44, 1999, 75-81. A. Kambylis, «Parasemeiomata zum Text des G. Version des Digenes Akritas», BZ 94/1, 2001, 29-61. H.-A. Théologitis, «Digénis Akritas et la littérature byzantine : problèmes d'approche», in Les personnages du roman grec, 393-405 : Digenis is a new kind of hero, created by the society living at the frontiers of the Empire ; that is why DA appears to be a text foreign to the taxinomy of Byzantine literature. id., «Mythe et mythe littéraire à Byzance : une étude sur Digénis Akritas», XXe Congrès International des Études Byzantines (Collège de France - Sorbonne, 19-25 août 2001), Pré-actes, Paris, 2001, t. III. Communications libres, p. 45 : an attempt to differentiate Digenis from the heroes of the other Byzantine novels and to understand the function of the Akritic myth in Byzantine society. F. Thorderson, «Det byzantinske Akkritas-Epos», Romansk Forum 10 (Dez. 1999), 99-107 : a brief presentation of DA in Norwegian, as part of a publication devoted to epics. CALLIMACHOS AND CHRYSORROE E. Castillo Ramirez, «El Calimaco y Crisorroe a la luz del analisis de V. Propp», Erytheia 21, 2000, 73-118 : Callimachos' structure is that of a folk-tale. BELTHANDROS AND CHRYSANTZA J.M. Egea, Historia extraordinaria de Beltando y Crisanza. Estudio preliminar, texto griego, traduccion, notas y comentarios, Biblioteca neogriega. Serie bilingüe de textos griegos medievales 1, Granada, 1998. E. Marcos-Hierros, «Beauté et sainteté : hagiographie et littérature dans le motif du concours d'élection des impératrices byzantines (VIIe-Xe siècles)», XXe Congrès International des Études Byzantines (Collège de France - Sorbonne, 19-25 août 2001), Pré-actes, Paris, 2001, t. III. Communications libres, p. 121 : about the much debated episode of the bride-show, which Belthandros has in common with some lives of female saints and chronicles ; Marcos-Hierros, defending the anhistoricity-thesis, points to the Book of Esther as a possible source of the motiv. LIBISTROS AND RHODAMNE P.A. Agapitos, «Writing, Reading and Reciting (in) the Byzantine Romances», XXe Congrès International des Études Byzantines (Collège de France - Sorbonne, 19-25 août 2001), Pré-actes, Paris, 2001, t. II. Tables rondes, p. 171 : about the place and function of letters in Libistros, compared with the other specimen of the Byzantine love romance ; Agapitos concludes that the development perceptible in the texts reflects a change from a situation where the romances were written to be recited in front of an aristocratic audience to a situation where the romances were written to be read by individual readers. ACHILLEID O.L Smith, The Byzantine Achilleid. The Naples Version, Vienna, 1999 : review by H. Eideneier, in Südost-Forschungen 58, 1999, 482-484 ; H. Hinterberger in JÖB 51, 2001, 466-471 ; D. Holton in BMGS 25, 2001, 268-270 ; H.C. Parker in Religious Studies Review 26, 2000, 385. M. Lassithiotakis, «Achille et Digénis : réflexions sur la fonction de quelques épisodes et motifs acritiques dans l'Achilléide», in Les personnages du roman grec, 373-392 : the debt of the Achilleid to Digenis Akritas best appears through the theme of wife abduction ; but the Achilles novel is also dependent upon the diptych composition of DA, as shown by the various echo effects linking the story of the son and that of the father. IMBERIOS AND MARGARONA - FLORIOS AND PLATZIA PHLORE F.J. Ortola Salas, «Contribucion al estudio de la lengua medieval griega. El caso de Imberio y Magarona y Florio y Platzia Flora (aspectos foneticos y flexion nominal, adjectival, pronominal y verbal)», Minerva 13, 1999, 141-177. BYZANTINE ILIAD U. Moennig, «Textkritische Bemerkungen zum Schiffskatalog in der sog. Byzantinischen Ilias», in I. Vassis - G.S. Henrich - D.R. Reinsch (ed.), Lesarten. Festschrift für A. Kambylis zum 70. Geburtstag, Berlin - New York, 1998, 283-292. POLEMOS TÊS TROADOS J. Schneider : review of M. Papathomopoulos - E.M. Jeffreys,  (The
War of Troy), Athens, 1996, in Kentron,
Presses Universitaires de Caen, vol. 17 / 1, 2001, 93-102 ; with
additional remarks about the sources of the War of Troy, its
problematical link with the Homeric poems, and further bibliographical
references.
THE OLD KNIGHT F. Rizzo Nervo, Il Vecchio Cavaliere, Medioevo Romanzo e Orientale. Testi 6, Rubbettino Editore, 2000 (145 p.) : a new edition with an Italian translation. 
Medioevo Romanzo e Orientale. Macrotesti fra Oriente e Occidente, Atti del IV Colloquio Internazionale (Vico Equense 26-29 Ottobre 2000), Messina 2002. P. Odorico, L'Akrite. L'épopée byzantine de Digénis Akritas, versions grecque et slave suivies du Chant d'Armouris, with the collaboration of J.P. Arrignon and H.A. Théologitis, ed. Anacharsis, June 2002. Lieux, décors et paysages de l'ancien roman, des origines à Byzance (Tours, 24-25 octobre 2002) : papers will be read about Digenis Akritas and the late-Byzantine novel. |
Acta of the Conference about The Conception of Antiquity in
Byzantine and Modern Greek Novel, held at Rhethymnon (November 9-10,
2001) : papers about Macrembolites, Digenis Akritas, and
vernacular novels.