Renaat Meesters
Ghent University, Letteren En Wijsbegeerte, Faculty Member
- Cappadocians, Neo-Hittites Kingdoms, Hittitology, Hitite Archaeology, Hittite, the Sea Peoples, XIX - XX Dynasty in Egypt, the Hittites, the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Medittaranean, and 41 moreCimmerians, Herodotus, Scythians, Pontic area, Black Sea area, Caucaaus, Near East, Anatolia, nomads, steppe peoples, Byzantine Studies, Mycenaean era archaeology, Tabal, Linear B, Neo-Assyrian studies, Anatolian Archaeology, Anatolian Languages, Luwian, Troy Studies, Trojan Horse, Homer, Classics, Byzantine History, Byzantine Archaeology, Byzantine art, Byzantine Literature, Byzantine Liturgy, Byzantine monasticism, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Byzantine Iconography, Byzantine Architecture, Byzantine Hagiography, Byzantine Numismatics, Byzantine Paleography and codicology, Byzantine Music, Byzantine Diplomatics (Imperial and Patriarchal Chancellery), Byzantine Philosophy, Late Byzantine history, Byzantium, Byzantine Theology, Saint John Climacus, St Athanasius the Great (of Alexandria), Asceticism, Monasticism, Biography, Paratexts, Paratext, Paratextuality, Transtextuality, and Book epigramsedit
Preface of PhD-thesis: "The Afterlife of John Klimax in Byzantine Book Epigrams: Edition, Translation and Commentary of Two Poetic Cycles". Ghent University (Belgium) 2017
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This article presents some theoretical reflexions on book epigrams, which are also referred to as metrical paratexts. The article focuses on terminology and the classification of book epigrams. Two different ways of classification are... more
This article presents some theoretical reflexions on book epigrams, which are also referred to as metrical paratexts. The article focuses on terminology and the classification of book epigrams. Two different ways of classification are compared: classification according to function (e.g. colophon verse, laudatory and dedicatory epigram) and classification according to preservation (traditional, editorial and post-editorial paratexts). Some of these categories, however, overlap, as will be shown by both Byzantine and modern examples.
Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 69 (2016), pp. 169-184
Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 69 (2016), pp. 169-184
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This article provides the editio princeps of a cycle of eight dodecasyllabic poems on the Psalms preserved in Bodleian Baroccianus 194 (15th century). Four of these poems are also present in other manuscripts and enjoyed a certain degree... more
This article provides the editio princeps of a cycle of eight dodecasyllabic poems on the Psalms preserved in Bodleian Baroccianus 194 (15th century). Four of these poems are also present in other manuscripts and enjoyed a certain degree of popularity as book epigrams. The four others are found in this manuscript only. The cycle contains an acrostic: ΜΑΚΑΡΙΟΥ. This Makarios is likely to have compiled the cycle and to have composed the otherwise unknown poems. The Psalms themselves are not included in the manuscript. Only two short commentaries on the Psalms precede and follow the cycle. This implies that at least the four known book epigrams lost their original function as poems referring deictically to the Psalms. A verse prayer to the Trinity that was preserved on the same folio is edited in an appendix.
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Volume edited by F. Spingou. More than a hundred scholars have collaborated for this unique collection of texts speaking about Byzantine art and aesthetics in eight medieval languages. Each text is printed in its original language and... more
Volume edited by F. Spingou.
More than a hundred scholars have collaborated for this unique collection of texts speaking about Byzantine art and aesthetics in eight medieval languages. Each text is printed in its original language and is accompanied by an introduction, translation and commentary. For the full description of the volume and the complete list of contributors see the document attached.
More than a hundred scholars have collaborated for this unique collection of texts speaking about Byzantine art and aesthetics in eight medieval languages. Each text is printed in its original language and is accompanied by an introduction, translation and commentary. For the full description of the volume and the complete list of contributors see the document attached.
Research Interests: Art History, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, and 23 moreMedieval Studies, Byzantine Literature, Medieval Archaeology, Byzantine Studies, Medieval Europe, Byzantine History, Byzantine Architecture, Byzantine Iconography, Byzantine Archaeology, Late Byzantine history, Medieval Art, Byzantine Aesthetics, Byzantium, Byzantine historiography, Constantinople, Medieval Art History, Daily Life in Byzantium, Byzantine art, Medieval aesthetics, Donors in Byzantium, Byzantine history and archaeology, Byzantine and Comparative Literature, and BYZANTIUM AND THE WEST
Review of Zecher (2015) The Role of Death in the Ladder of Divine Ascent and the Greek Ascetic Tradition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, in Byzantion 86: 25-26.