Epistulae [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

The two volumes offer the first critical edition of the entire letter-collection of Michael Psellos; a total of 563 texts, including spuria, rewritings, and excerpts. Psellos (11th c., Constantinople) is a well-known figure among students of Byzantine culture and arguably the most prolific and influential middle Byzantine learned author. His letter-collection, preserved in 53 Byzantine and post-Byzantine manuscripts, grants us glimpses into the lives of well-known but also everyday Byzantines, sheding light upon Constantinopolitan networks of friendship and power and, more importantly, upon habits of rhetorical craftsmanship, literary imagination, and typologies of self.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 3110622017
• ISBN13: 9783110622010
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 1392 Pages
• Weight: 5.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary