Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop

by Margaret Mullett

Book Overview

Few works exist on Byzantine literature as literature and still fewer studies of individual texts. This reading of the letter-collection (c.1090-c.1110) of Theophylact of Ochrid employs a variety of approaches to characterise a work which is both a literary artefact in a long Greek tradition and the only trace of a complex network of friends, colleagues, patrons and clients within Byzantine Bulgaria and also within the empire as a whole. These letters...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138260525
• ISBN13: 9781138260528
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"