The History of Byzantine Literature: from Justinian to the end of the Eastern Roman Empire (527-1453) (2nd ed. Munich: Beck, 1897)

By Karl Krumbacher
Introductory sections translated by David Jenkins and David Bachrach

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Translators’ Preface
Introduction
1. Concept and General History of Byzantine Literature
2. Characteristics
3. International cultural relations
First Section: Prose Literature
1. Theology
2. Historians and Chroniclers
3. Geography
4. Philosophy
5. Rhetoric, Sophistry and Epistolography
6. Classical Studies
7. Scientific Specialties
a. Law
b. Medicine
c. Mathematics and Astronomy (including Astrology and Fortune Telling)
d. Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy and Alchemy
e. Military Science
Second Section: Poetic Literature
1. General Characteristics and Introduction
2. Church Poetry
3. Popular Poetry
Third Section: Vernacular Greek Literature — Introduction
1. Discussion of terms
2. Historical Overview
3. Language and Meter
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Translators’ Preface
Karl Krumbacher was born on Sept. 23, 1856 in Kempten, Bavaria and died on Dec. 12, 1909 in Munich. He was educated in the classics at the universities of Leipzig and Munich
and in 1897 became Professor of medieval and modern Greek at the University of Munich. Arguably the greatest Byzantinist of his generation, his contributions to the field were profound. He both founded the discipline’s leading international journal, the Byzantinische Zeitschrift, and authored its standard reference work, Die Geschichte der Byzantinischen Litteratur (1892; 2nd ed., 1897).
The History of Byzantine Literature: from Justinian to the end of
the Eastern Roman Empire (527-1453)
(2nd ed. Munich: Beck, 1897)…

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