The Gustav Karlsson Lecture on Byzantine Studies
Nov 20 2009 - 19:00
Nov 20 2009 - 21:30
Etc/GMT+2
Emperor Manuel & empress Maria
Lecture by Dr. Ingela Nilsson, Assοciate Professor at the Uppsala University on
"Court ceremonial, literary letters: a twelfth-century poet and his rhetorical persona"
The lecture will focus on some poems attributed to Theodore Prodromos
(c. 1100-1170), popular and prolific poet at the Komnenian court in
Constantinople. Does he really speak of himself in these poems, or is he
just playing around with his audience, exploiting a well-known theme
and thus creating a literary persona? The question will be considered in
light of Gustav Karlsson's ideas on ceremonial rhetoric in Byzantine
espistolography.
At the Swedish Institute, Mitseon 9, Makrkyianni.
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