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Project
Byzantine Book Epigrams: function and context of a genre in the margin
This research project deals with Byzantine book epigrams. These are metrical paratexts, texts in verse that refer to a main text. This genre is
preserved in Medieval Greek manuscripts. The project aims at a better understanding
of Byzantine book epigrams, their characteristics, their function and their context.
Besides that the concept ‘poetry’ will be redefined. The concept ‘paratext’ will be
approached as a space for more formal experiments with more freedom than in literature that is part of the main text. A third concept that will be questioned is ‘author’.
Date:1 Oct 2013 → 30 Sep 2015
Keywords:medieval Greek manuscripts, Byzantine literature, book epigrams, metrical paratexts
Disciplines:Language studies, Literary studies