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Byzantine literature is the Greek literature of the Middle Ages, whether written in the Byzantine Empire or outside its borders. [1] It was marked by a linguistic diglossy ; two distinct forms of Byzantine Greek were used, a scholarly dialect based on Attic Greek , and a vernacular based on Koine Greek .
The years of the Nicaean Empire were primarily a period of collecting the dispersed legacy. The most prominent authors of this period include the historian and theologian Niketas Choniates and the polymath Nikephoros Blemmydes. In the final decades of the Byzantine Empire, local centers gained importance as the capital weakened.
The restoration of the Byzantine Empire by the Komnenian dynasty after the defeats of the 1070s brought a flourishing of Byzantine literature. In historiography, notable figures include Nikephoros Bryennios and his wife Anna Komnene , with John Kinnamos emerging in the following generation.
Digenis Akritas ; about a hero of the Byzantine Empire; Epic of King Gesar ; Garshaspname (Persian) by Asadi Tusi (1066) Carmen Campidoctoris, the first poem about El Cid (c. 1083) Song of Armouris (Byzantine, acritic song) Borzu Nama, ascribed to 'Amid Abu'l 'Ala' 'Ata b. Yaqub Kateb Razi (Persian epic with a main character and a poetic style ...
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred in Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The eastern half of the Empire survived the conditions that caused the fall of the West in the 5th century AD, and continued to exist until the fall of Constantinople ...
Chronicles about the Byzantine Empire (1 C, 3 P) G. ... Pages in category "Byzantine literature" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total.
Byzantine romance represents a revival of the ancient Greek romance of Roman times. Works in this category were written by Byzantine Greeks of the Eastern Roman Empire during the 12th century. Under the Comnenian dynasty, Byzantine writers of twelfth century Constantinople reintroduced the ancient Greek romance literature, imitating its form ...
Digenes Akritas (Latinised as Acritas; Greek: Διγενῆς Ἀκρίτας) [a] is a medieval Greek romantic epic that emerged in the 12th-century Byzantine Empire.It is the lengthiest and most famous of the acritic songs, Byzantine folk poems celebrating the lives and exploits of the Akritai, the inhabitants and frontier guards of the empire's eastern Anatolian provinces.