This article proposes to consider medieval textbooks, designed for the study of Greek, as major sources for historical sociolinguistic analyses on texts written in (high-register) Medieval Greek. It ...additionally discusses some aspects of the definition of historical sociolinguistics as a discipline, and stresses the importance of recovering the speech community’s perspective on Medieval Greek.
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.
The article looks at borrowings, hapax legomena and the use of vernacularisms in the Ioannes Cananus’ Account on the Siege of Constantinople in 1422. The most relevant entries are listed and ...discussed. On the basis of a new analysis of the manuscript tradition, the author also suggests some amendments to the Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität and to the reference edition by E. Pinto (1977).
L’articolo prende in considerazione i vocaboli vernacolari presenti nel Racconto dell’assedio di Costantinopoli di Ioannes Cananus. I più significativi lemmi vengono elencati e commentati ponendo particolare attenzione alla ortografia, ai passi paralleli e al ruolo che tali vocaboli giocano nell’economia del testo. Sono presenti interessanti addenda et corrigenda ai volumi pubblicati del Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität e all’edizione di Cananus di riferimento di E. Pinto (1977), soprattutto in riferimento alla tradizione manoscritta e all’importanza di alcune lezioni del più antico testimone della Diegesis. Viene altresì sottolineata la reciproca importanza di filologia e lessicografia.
Cuomo Andrea Massimo. Osservazioni sul lessico di Ioannes Cananus: la soloecobarbara elocutio. In: Revue des études byzantines, tome 72, 2014. pp. 331-350.
Das Byzantinische Archiv ist die Begleitreihe der Byzantinischen Zeitschrift und umfasst sowohl Monographien als auch Sammelbände. Es bietet ein Forum für Editionen, Kommentare sowie vertiefende ...Studien zu Einzelaspekten aus dem Bereich der Byzantinistik. Literatur, Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte einschließlich der damit verbundenen Neben- und Randdisziplinen sind gleichermaßen vertreten.
This collective publication deals with the loanwords, which are found in 18 late Byzantine historians and chronicles.
Die kollektive Publikation beschäftigt sich mit den Lehnwörtern, die sich in 18 ...spätbyzantinischen Historikern und Chroniken befinden.
This volume presents a new critical edition of John Kananos' account of the unsuccessful siege of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1422. An eye-witness to the siege, Kananos celebrates the defense ...of the City and its miraculous liberation at the hand of the Mother of God. This book offers a new critical text of Kananos' passionate narrative alongside a new analysis of the manuscripts, an English translation, and a linguistic commentary.
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