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- Title
Tuning the pen: poetry writing and patronage networks around the end of the Byzantine empire.
- Authors
Kubina, Krystina
- Abstract
The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople not only destroyed the Byzantine Empire as a political entity but caused the collapse of patronage networks vital to all aspects of Byzantine cultural life, including literary production. After 1453 authors had to seek sources of support under new lords and divergent cultural imperatives: Ottoman Constantinople, Crete, and humanist Italy became major centres of Greek poetic production and intellectual life. Through the analysis of poems by George Amiroutzes, Michael Apostoles, Bessarion, Andronikos Kallistos, and others, this article examines how these authors adapted their compositions to new communities, substantially transforming their (literary) identity.
- Subjects
ISTANBUL (Turkey); CRETE (Greece); BYZANTINE Empire; POETRY writing; PATRONAGE; INTELLECTUAL life
- Publication
Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, 2023, Vol 47, Issue 1, p18
- ISSN
0307-0131
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/byz.2022.28