The Late Byzantine Romance in Context: Narrativity and Identities in the Mediterranean (13th16th Centuries) [Hardcover]

1. Introduction: a) Identities and narrativity in a Mediterranean context (13th16th centuries): a brief introduction

Yannis Smarnakis

b) The Late Byzantine romance in context

Zissis D. Ainalis

2. The narrators voice: narrative and representation of the self in the Late Byzantine romances

Zissis D. Ainalis

3. Western cultural ways and their perception in Palaiologan narratives: some cases from historiography and vernacular romances

Nafsika Vassilopoulou

4. The Forty Viziers and the Ottoman sultans: offering advice and expressing critique in the 1440s

Eleni Gara

5. East and the eastern other in the imaginary of Byzantine romance

Zoi Kokka

6. An emperor under the guise of a Moses: narrative representations of the East in Philippe de M?zi?res Songe du viel pelerin

Eleni Tounta

7. Narrative representations of space in the tale of Imperios and Margarona: constructing the image of a global mediterranean for a popular audience

Yannis Smarnakis

8. Fathers, sons and brothers: the succession to the throne and the construction of masculinities in Velthandros and Chrysantza and Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoe

Konstantinos Karatolios

9. The virgin and the soldier, the monk and the whore: gendered metonymy and confessional resistance in the post-Byzantine world

Yorgos Tzedopoulos

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