The anonymous of sola and the school of Nosiai
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- Floris Bernard (UGent)
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- Abstract
- This article attempts to clarify the context of a series of short poems found in the corpus of the so-called Anonymous of Sola, a poet living around the year 1000. The word νοσίαι (literally ‘nests’), occurring twice in this series, does not make sound sense, and moreover violates prosodic rules. It is argued that the word contains a pun, and primarily refers to the geographical location Nosiai, a village adjacent to the Sea of Marmara, nearly only known for a monastery. Also, these little poems may have been performed during contests between schools. During these contests, students and teachers put up a display of their rhetorical and/or poetical abilities, which were in turn vividly praised or vilified. It is shown that in this period, many poetic texts are related to these contests, showing the partisanship of a poet in favour of one of the many schools in and around Constantinople. Our poet, therefore, may have promoted a school in Nosiai, perhaps related to the monastery located there.
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- Byzantine poetry, Byzantine literature, Education
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-1987786
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- Bernard, Floris. “The Anonymous of Sola and the School of Nosiai.” JAHRBUCH DER ÖSTERREICHISCHEN BYZANTINISTIK, vol. 61, 2011, pp. 81–88, doi:10.1553/joeb61s81.
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- Bernard, F. (2011). The anonymous of sola and the school of Nosiai. JAHRBUCH DER ÖSTERREICHISCHEN BYZANTINISTIK, 61, 81–88. https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb61s81
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- Bernard, Floris. 2011. “The Anonymous of Sola and the School of Nosiai.” JAHRBUCH DER ÖSTERREICHISCHEN BYZANTINISTIK 61: 81–88. https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb61s81.
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- Bernard, Floris. 2011. “The Anonymous of Sola and the School of Nosiai.” JAHRBUCH DER ÖSTERREICHISCHEN BYZANTINISTIK 61: 81–88. doi:10.1553/joeb61s81.
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- 1.Bernard F. The anonymous of sola and the school of Nosiai. JAHRBUCH DER ÖSTERREICHISCHEN BYZANTINISTIK. 2011;61:81–8.
- IEEE
- [1]F. Bernard, “The anonymous of sola and the school of Nosiai,” JAHRBUCH DER ÖSTERREICHISCHEN BYZANTINISTIK, vol. 61, pp. 81–88, 2011.
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author = {{Bernard, Floris}},
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keywords = {{Byzantine poetry,Byzantine literature,Education}},
language = {{eng}},
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title = {{The anonymous of sola and the school of Nosiai}},
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