The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium by Juan Sign... - 9781032228211

The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in ByzantiumAuthor(s): Juan Signes Codoer, Martin Hinterberger, Inmaculada Prez Martn\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032228211, 978-1032228211\nSynopsis\nThe Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium presents an overview of the various rewriting processes involved in the production of Byzantine literature. Due to the lack of recent systematic research on the totality of Byzantine literature, which embraces a long millennium of texts, the fluid concept of rewriting, here studied for the first time in all its complexity, serves as a unifying criterion for understanding the literary task of the Byzantines. Literature in Byzantium went well beyond the problems of language and genre and was adapted according to the audience and the expectations of the readers, which varied greatly in different periods.\n\nWith contributions from 25 scholars, this book analyses and discusses a v.