商品簡介
This volume highlights the wealth of medieval storytelling and the fundamental unity of the medieval Mediterranean by combining in a comprehensive overview popular eastern tales along with their Greek adaptations and examining Byzantine love tales, both learned and vernacular, alongside their Persian counterparts and the later adaptations of Western romances.
作者簡介
Carolina Cupane was senior lecturer at the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna and research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in the Division of Byzantine Studies. She has published extensively on late Byzantine vernacular literature and on cultural exchange between Byzantium and the West. Bettina Kronung is a Research staff member at the department of Byzantine Studies at the University of Mainz. Her research interests include monastic literature and Christian-Muslim relations, especially concerning literary, cultural and diplomatic exchanges between Byzantium and the Arab world.
