Byzantium and the modern Greek identity. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Ricks and Paul Magdalino.
• Other Names: Ricks, David; Magdalino, Paul
• Contents: From Christian Roman emperors to the glorious Greek ancestors / Alexis Politis -- Aspects of modern Greek historiography of Byzantium / George Huxley -- On the intellectual content of Greek nationalism: Paparrigopoulos, Byzantium and the great idea / Paschalis M. Kitromilides -- Byzantine law as practice and as history in the nineteenth century / Caroula Argyriadis-Kervégan -- Byzantium and the Greek language question in the nineteenth century / Peter Mackridge -- Metamorphoseon permulti libri: Byzantine literature translated into modern Greek / Panagiotis A. Agapitos -- 'As Byzantine then as it is today': Pope Joan and Roïdis's Greece / Ruth Macrides -- Papadiamantis, ecumenism and the theft of Byzantium / Robert Shannan Peckham -- Two cheers for Byzantium: equivocal attitudes in the poetry of Palamas and Cavafy / Anthony Hirst -- Byzantium and the novel in the twentieth century: from Penelope Delta to Maro Douka / Marianna Spanaki -- 'Our glorious Byzantinism': Papatzonis, Seferis, and the rehabilitation of Byzantium in postwar Greek poetry / Roderick Beaton -- Byzantium in contemporary Greece: the neo-orthodox current of ideas / Vasilios N. Makrides -- The restoration of Thessaloniki's Byzantine monuments and their place in the modern city / Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaïdou -- 'Thessaloniki and life' / Nikos Gabriel Pentzikis (translated by Leo Marshall).
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (200 pages)
• Subjects: 949.5; National characteristics, Greek; Greek literature, Modern -- Byzantine influences; Byzantijnse rijk; Beïnvloeding; Letterkunde; Nieuwgrieks; Politische Identität; Reichsidee; Greece -- Civilization -- Byzantine influences; Greece -- History -- 1821-; Byzantinisches Reich; Griechenland
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351953689; 1351953680
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.