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Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters makes available for the first time complete English translations from the works of Michael Psellos (1018–1076?), a key philosopher of the Byzantine Empire. Psellos was not simply a philosopher, he was also a courtier, historian, and monk, and his works betray a dazzling engagement with philosophy, theology, history, and science. These interests were expressed in some eleven hundred works, including formal rhetorical texts, history writing, letters, poetry, and texts written for his students. This book contains the works that Psellos wrote about his family, including a long funeral oration for his mother that features unique recollections from a childhood spent in Constantinople; a funeral oration for his young daughter Styliane, which includes a detailed description of her physical appearance and a moving account of her illness and death; a legal work pertaining to the engagement of his second, adopted, daughter; and various letters and other works that relate to the private life of this Byzantine family. These works offer us a rare and comprehensive picture of the family life of a medieval Byzantine courtier and philosopher. Much of the material follows the rules of rhetoric inherited from classical and Christian antiquity, but Psellos was always recasting the conventions of those genre to express his own revolutionary views regarding the relation of body and soul. Some of these works also have an apologetic or legal purpose, as Psellos sometimes used them to get himself out of some trouble. Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters will appeal to all who study medieval women, childhood, and the family, especially as it provides a Byzantine perspective that has been absent from most modern discussions of those topics.

Sujets

Philosophie

Philosophie médiévale, scolastique

Religion

Christianisme

Surveys

Philosophers

Medieval

HISTORY

PHILOSOPHY

Philosophie et théologie

Edad Media

Women in the Middle Ages

Michael Psellos

Middle Ages

Christianity

Constantinople

Renaissance

Europe

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Publié par	University of Notre Dame Press
Date de parution	15 avril 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780268024178
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	8 Mo

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Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters

Michael Psellos in Translation

Miniature portrait of Michael Psellos and his pupil Michael Doukas, Ms Pantokrator OPQ, fol.ORQ(NOth century). © Holy Monastery of Pantokrator, Mount Athos. Used with permission.

Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters

The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos

edited and translated by

A N T H O N Y K A L D E L L I S

with contributions by David Jenkins and Stratis Papaioannou

University of Notre Dame Press

Notre Dame, Indiana

Reprinted inOMNQ

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Psellus, Michael. [Selections. English.OMMS] Mothers and sons, fathers and daughters : the Byzantine family of Michael Psellos / edited and translated by Anthony Kaldellis ; with contributions by David Jenkins and Stratis Papaioannou. p. cm. — (Michael Psellos in translation) Includes bibliographical references and index. áëÄå-NP:VTUJMJOSUJMPPNRJS(pbk. : alk. paper) áëÄå-NM:MJOSUJMPPNRJP(pbk. : alk. paper) isbn-13:฀978-0-268-02415-4(hardback) N. Psellus, Michael—Family.O. Psellus family. I. Kaldellis, Anthony.

II. Jenkins, David (David Todd) III. Papaioannou, Stratis. IV. Title. V. Title: Byzantine family of Michael Psellos. é~RPRRKòRéTQ OMMS NUV— dcOO OMMSMOQNVQ

∞The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

I dedicate this book to my father, mother, sister, and brother-in-law.

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

General Introduction A Brief Biography of Michael Psellos The Family History of Michael Psellos Daughters and Wives in Eleventh-Century Constantinople

Encomium for his mother Introduction Translation

Funeral Oration for his daughter Styliane, who died before the age of marriage Introduction Translation

The Court Memorandum (hypomnêma) regarding the engagement of his daughter(D. Jenkins) Introduction Translation

To his grandson, who was still an infant Introduction Translation

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Letters regarding Psellos’ family(S. Papaioannou) Introduction Translation

On the festival of St Agathê Introduction Translation

Bibliography

Index

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Preface and Acknowledgments

In addition to being actively engaged in the political intrigues of the Byzan-tine court of his time, the eleventh-century philosopher Michael Psellos (born Konstantinos) produced a vast corpus of writings that cover almost every ﬁeld of knowledge and genre. Among modern readers, however, he is usually known solely from his masterly memoirs of the emperors of his time, known as the Chronographia.If this most fascinating of courtiers and thinkers is to be studied as broadly as he deserves — and not merely by professional Byzantine philolo-gists who happen to specialize in his wo rks!— it is necessary for more of his writings to be made accessible to a wider readership. The idea of a translation of works selected by genre, theme, or historical importance was accordingly proposed at the First Bi-Annual Workshop in Byzantine Intellectual History or-ganized at the University of Notre Dame,‒February, by David Jenkins and Charles Barber on the topic of “The Play of Literature and Ideas in the Writings of Michael Psellos.” The idea was received enthusiastically and the present book is the ﬁrst oﬀspring of what it is hoped will become a long-term and more broadly collaborative venture. This volume presents in translation all the texts that Psellos wrote con-cerning his family. All together they present us with the most complete picture we have of any non-imperial Byzantine family, tracking its fortunes over the course of a century. This book, then, is one of the ﬁrst and most comprehen-sive on the topic of the Byzantine family. Each text is annotated and prefaced by a special introduction, while the volume as a whole is introduced by an essay on Psellos’ life, the history of his family, and the lives of women and children in eleventh-century Constantinople. Subsequent volumes in what we may loosely (and hopefully) call this “series” will focus on Psellos’ career as a teacher in

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Philosophie médiévale, scolastique

Religion

Christianisme

Surveys

Philosophers

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HISTORY

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Edad Media

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