Beaton, Roderick. From Byzantium to Modern Greece: Medieval Texts and Their Modern Reception. Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS911. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. xiv, 304 p.

ISBN 0754659690 hbk; 9780754659693 hbk

This volume retains the pagination of the original publication of the articles, except in Chapters XI and XIII, which have been reformatted.

Contents: Preface.

Part 1, 'Literature and Identity': (I) "'De vulgari eloquentia' in Twelfth-century Byzantium"; (II) "Antique Nation? 'Hellenes' on the Eve of Greek Independence and in Twelfth-century Byzantium".

Part 2, 'Byzantine Epic and the Oral Tradition': (III) "Balladry in the Medieval Greek World"; (IV) "Byzantine Historiography and Modern Greek Oral Poetry: the Case of Rapsomatis"; (V) "Was Digenes Akrites an Oral Poem?"; (VI) "'Digenes Akrites' and Modern Greek Folk Song: a Reassessment"; (VII) "An Epic in the Making? The Early Versions of Digenes Akrites".

Part 3, 'The Revival of Satire': (VIII) "Cappadocians at Court: Digenes and Timarion"; (IX) "The Rhetoric of Poverty: the Lives and Opinions of Theodore Prodromos"; (X) "Πτωχοπροδρομικά Γ': η ηθοποιία του άτακτου μοναχού / Ptochoprodromos III: the Ethopoeia of the Unruly Monk".

Part 4, 'The Byzantine Novel or 'Romance'': (ΧΙ) "The Byzantine Revival of the Ancient Novel"; (ΧΙΙ) "The World of Fiction and the World 'Out There': the Case of the Byzantine Novel"; (ΧΙΙΙ) "The Poetics of the Vernacular Greek Romances and the 'Chronotope' according to Bakhtin"; (XIV) "Courtly Romances in Byzantium: a Case Study in Reception"; (XV) "Erotokritos and the History of the Novel".

Part 5, 'Byzantine Literature and the Making of a Modern Greek National Consciousness': (XVI) "Koraes, Toynbee and the Modern Greek Heritage"; (XVII) "Romanticism in Greece"; (XVIII) "La fortune de Digénis Akritis: de l'épopée médiévale au symbole du nationalisme grec"; (XIX) "'Our glorious Byzantinism': Papatzonis, Seferis, and the Rehabilitation of Byzantium in Postwar Greek Poetry".

Index.