Name: Theodore Metochites: Patterns of Self-Representation in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium
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Author: Polemis, Ioannis ; Stathakopoulos, Dionysios
ISBN: 9780755651429

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Theodore Metochites: Patterns of Self-Representation in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ioannis Polemis

Illustrated by

Dionysios Stathakopoulos

Publisher

I. B. Tauris & Company

Language

English

Pages

216

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.6 x 1.4 cm

Weight

0.48 kg.

ISBN13

9780755651429

Synopsis "Theodore Metochites: Patterns of Self-Representation in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium"

The statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites was one of the most important personalities of the fourteenth-century Byzantine Empire. A close advisor to the emperor Andronikos II and restorer of the famous monastery of Chora in Constantinople, Metochites left various writings including orations, poems, essays and commentaries on classical and religious texts, in which he discusses the numerous problems that troubled him and his contemporaries, such as the decline of the state and the tension between public life and that of the philosopher. In this book, Ioannis Polemis provides the first in-depth study of Metochites' oeuvre, revealing the complex way he represented the authorial self to critique the politics and mores of his day, whilst at the same time shielding himself from potential criticism. Polemis details the way Metochites deftly manipulated figures and tropes from classical antiquity and early Christianity to justify his role in public life, which was traditionally shunned by scholars in the pursuit of 'logos'. The book provides unique insights into one of the late Empire's most important figures, as well as more widely deepening our understanding of classical reception in Byzantium and the social, political and intellectual climate of Constantinople in the fourteenth century.

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