Gifts of words: the discourse of gift-giving in eleventh-century Byzantine poetry
- Author
- Floris Bernard (UGent)
- Organization
- Abstract
- Poets of the Byzantine eleventh-century disposed of a powerful means to have their works patroned without incurring the accusation that they chased ambitions: the gift. Numerous poems are offered as gifts, in exchange for tangible rewards. The rhetoric of 'words as a gift' moreover helped poets to uphold the exquisite nature of their works and to confirm the exclusivity of their elite.
- Keywords
- Byzantine poetry, Sociology of literature
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-2034603
- MLA
- Bernard, Floris. “Gifts of Words: The Discourse of Gift-Giving in Eleventh-Century Byzantine Poetry.” Poetry and Its Contexts in Eleventh-Century Byzantium, edited by Floris Bernard and Kristoffel Demoen, Ashgate, 2012, pp. 37–51.
- APA
- Bernard, F. (2012). Gifts of words: the discourse of gift-giving in eleventh-century Byzantine poetry. In F. Bernard & K. Demoen (Eds.), Poetry and its contexts in eleventh-century Byzantium (pp. 37–51). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
- Chicago author-date
- Bernard, Floris. 2012. “Gifts of Words: The Discourse of Gift-Giving in Eleventh-Century Byzantine Poetry.” In Poetry and Its Contexts in Eleventh-Century Byzantium, edited by Floris Bernard and Kristoffel Demoen, 37–51. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Bernard, Floris. 2012. “Gifts of Words: The Discourse of Gift-Giving in Eleventh-Century Byzantine Poetry.” In Poetry and Its Contexts in Eleventh-Century Byzantium, ed by. Floris Bernard and Kristoffel Demoen, 37–51. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
- Vancouver
- 1.Bernard F. Gifts of words: the discourse of gift-giving in eleventh-century Byzantine poetry. In: Bernard F, Demoen K, editors. Poetry and its contexts in eleventh-century Byzantium. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate; 2012. p. 37–51.
- IEEE
- [1]F. Bernard, “Gifts of words: the discourse of gift-giving in eleventh-century Byzantine poetry,” in Poetry and its contexts in eleventh-century Byzantium, F. Bernard and K. Demoen, Eds. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2012, pp. 37–51.
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abstract = {{Poets of the Byzantine eleventh-century disposed of a powerful means to have their works patroned without incurring the accusation that they chased ambitions: the gift. Numerous poems are offered as gifts, in exchange for tangible rewards. The rhetoric of 'words as a gift' moreover helped poets to uphold the exquisite nature of their works and to confirm the exclusivity of their elite.}},
author = {{Bernard, Floris}},
booktitle = {{Poetry and its contexts in eleventh-century Byzantium}},
editor = {{Bernard, Floris and Demoen, Kristoffel}},
isbn = {{9781409440710}},
keywords = {{Byzantine poetry,Sociology of literature}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{37--51}},
publisher = {{Ashgate}},
title = {{Gifts of words: the discourse of gift-giving in eleventh-century Byzantine poetry}},
year = {{2012}},
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