So Near, Yet So Far: Medieval Courtly Romance, and Imberios and Margarona. A case of de-medievalization
The romance Imberios and Margarona does not belong to the Renaissance. It does not acknowledge many of the issues which become current in the age of Humanism: the value of individual consciousness, to name but one, will wait until the seventeenth century to be explored in Greek literature. And yet,...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | German |
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De Gruyter
2006
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Byzantinische Zeitschrift
Year: 2006, Volume: 99, Issue: 1, Pages: 195-217 |
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Summary: | The romance Imberios and Margarona does not belong to the Renaissance. It does not acknowledge many of the issues which become current in the age of Humanism: the value of individual consciousness, to name but one, will wait until the seventeenth century to be explored in Greek literature. And yet, the vintage of Imberios is hybrid: being late medieval and modelled after a popular European prototype, it slants ever so gently towards what will later be fully fledged humanistic sensibilities. |
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ISSN: | 1868-9027 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/BYZS.2006.195 |