The Letters of Psellos: Cultural Networks and Historical Realities

The Letters of Psellos is the first detailed study of the correspondence of Michael Psellos, a leading Byzantine intellectual, politician, and writer of the eleventh century. Psellos' corpus of over 500 letters represents a historical source of great significance for the study of society and culture of the time: literary masterpieces in and of themselves, yet often complex and difficult to understand in their entirety, they not only rebound with subtlety...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198787227
• ISBN13: 9780198787228
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"