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Digenis Akritis
Language: en
Pages: 472
Authors: Elizabeth Jeffreys
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-05-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Digenis Akritis is Byzantium's only epic poem, telling of the exploits of a heroic warrior of 'double descent' on the frontiers between Byzantine and Arab terri
Digenis Akritas, the Two-blood Border Lord : the Grottaferrata Version
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Denison B. Hull
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985 - Publisher:

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Among the epic romances of post-Barbarian Europe, such as Roland and El Cid, Digenis Akritas has been the least known in the West. It is the story of a half-bre
Archaeology and the Homeric Epic
Language: en
Pages: 183
Authors: Susan Sherratt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-30 - Publisher: Oxbow Books

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The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swinging between 'fundamentalist' attempts to use archaeology in or
Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond
Language: en
Pages: 550
Authors:
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-27 - Publisher: BRILL

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This volume offers an overview of the rich narrative material circulating in the medieval Mediterranean. As a multilingual and multicultural zone, the Eastern M
The Study of Medieval Greek Romance
Language: en
Pages: 148
Authors: Panagiotis A. Agapitos
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press

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Study of Medieval Greek Romance