caa a22 4500 378892746 CHVBK 20180305123459.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e200410 xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/BYZS.2004.214 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/BYZS.2004.214 Jeffreys Elizabeth Oxford Alexander Kazhdan in collaboration with Lee E. Sherry and Christine Angelidi, A History of Byzantine Literature (650-850) [Elektronische Daten] [Elizabeth Jeffreys] It is widely known that one of the projects that was most preoccupying the late, and much regretted, Alexander Kazhdan in his latter years was a study of Byzantine literature that would bring this field into the modern era. For far too long Byzantine literature, he asserted, had been encased in the strait-jacket imposed by Krumbacher's magisterial Geschichte. Byzantinists were constrained by a Handbuch mentality whose bonds had been confirmed by the three volumes that replaced Krumbacher's single tome: Beck on ‘Theologische Literatur' and ‘Volksliteratur' and Hunger on high-style secular literature. However humane the tone might appear at times in these reference works (Hunger's contributions being particularly noteworthy), nothing could disguise the fact that these books were taxonomic catalogues. Byzantium's literary output was categorised by genre, genres largely imposed by modern historians and not necessarily recognisable to any Byzantine: authors were disposed under a series of at times arbitrary divisions and it was virtually impossible to have a sense of any individual's total output; Psellos was perhaps the most notoriously splintered example. Furthermore, the content of these catalogues was resolutely pragmatic: names, dates, works, editions, contents. Qualitative assessments were eschewed, there was little interpretation of literary movements. © 2004 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, München und Leipzig Byzantinische Zeitschrift Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 97/1(2004-10), 214-216 0007-7704 97:1<214 2004 97 BYZS https://doi.org/10.1515/BYZS.2004.214 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/BYZS.2004.214 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jeffreys Elizabeth Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Byzantinische Zeitschrift Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 97/1(2004-10), 214-216 0007-7704 97:1<214 2004 97 BYZS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter