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De gedichten van loannes Geometres. Een uniek beeld van Konstantinopel in de tiende eeuw

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  • Wim Broekaert

Abstract

The oeuvre of John Geometres, a Byzantine aristocrat, leading officer in the imperial army and celebrated poet, includes a large collection of epigrams and other poems. They deal with a variety of subjects, thus offering a sketch of the political and social events in the tenth century Byzantine empire and the religious beliefs of a Christian intellectual. The author manifests his high education in both the classical and the biblical literary traditions, a distinctive feature of the Macedonian Renaissance.

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Broekaert, W., (2002) “De gedichten van loannes Geometres. Een uniek beeld van Konstantinopel in de tiende eeuw”, Tetradio 11(1): 6, 149–162. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tetradio.91968

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Published on
05 Jun 2002
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