"For Old Men Too Can Play, Albeit More Wisely So" : The Game of Discourses in the Ptochoprodromika

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. "For Old Men Too Can Play, Albeit More Wisely So" : The Game of Discourses in the Ptochoprodromika. In Marciniak, Przemyslaw; Nilsson, Ingela. Satire in the Middle Byzantine Period. The Golden Age of Laughter? Leiden: Brill, 2021, p. 304-323. Explorations in Medieval Culture, vol. 12. ISBN 978-90-04-43438-7. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004442566_016.

Basic information

• Original name: "For Old Men Too Can Play, Albeit More Wisely So" : The Game of Discourses in the Ptochoprodromika
• Authors: KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Leiden, Satire in the Middle Byzantine Period. The Golden Age of Laughter? p. 304-323, 20 pp. Explorations in Medieval Culture, vol. 12, 2021.
• Publisher: Brill

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Chapter(s) of a specialized book
• Field of Study: 60206 Specific literatures
• Country of publisher: Netherlands
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/21:00118807
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-90-04-43438-7
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004442566_016
• UT WoS: 000854074300015
• Keywords in English: Byzantium; verse; satire; parody; court poetry; Theodore Prodromos; begging poetry; France; Germany
• Tags: rivok, topvydavatel
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

In the beginning of the chapter, a report is provided about research and the complex scholarly discussion concerning the Ptochoprodromic poems and related texts (Theodore Prodromos’ occasional poems, the Mangana poems, and the short Majuri poem). The following two sections present and discuss in more detail the features of the four main discourses used in the collection: laudatory, supplicatory, satiric, and parodic. The chapter closes with a short note about literary parallels to this poetry, especially in the Latin West.

Links

• GA19-05387S, research and development project: Name: Naratologický komentář k byzantskému eposu Digenis Akritis (Acronym: A Narratological Commentary on Digenis Akritis)

Investor: Czech Science Foundation