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The Letters of Psellos is the first detailed study of the correspondence of Michael Psellos, a leading Byzantine intellectual, politician, and writer of the eleventh century. Psellos corpus of over 500 letters represents a historical source of great significance for the study of society and culture of the time: literary masterpieces in and of themselves, yet often complex and difficult to understand in their entirety, they not only rebound with subtlety and humor, but also offer invaluable information on myriad subjects ranging from the political culture of Byzantium and its civil administration to social codes, religious beliefs, and popular culture. This volume consists of two complementary parts designed to make Psellos letters as widely accessible as possible, both to the specialist academic community and to a wider non-specialist audience. The first part contains five essays offering detailed historical and literary analyses of a considerable number of the letters across a range of different topics, including the financial management of monasteries, the friendship of Psellos and John Mauropous, and the challenges posed by Psellian irony. While the essays are supplemented by individual appendices containing the translated text of the pertinent letters, the second part of the book presents annotated summaries in English of the entirety of Psellos correspondence, compiled over many years as part of the Prosopography of the Byzantine World project and supported by substantial excursuses and notes. The result is an engaging and accessible shortcut into these bewildering and fascinating letters and an essential resource for the study of eleventh-century Byzantine society and culture through the pen of one of its pre-eminent figures.

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Oxford Studies in Byzantium

Editorial Board

james howard-johnston elizabeth jeffreys

marc lauxtermann paul magdalino

henry maguire cyril mango

marlia mango jean-pierre sodini

jonathan shepard

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Preface

This volume consists of two uneven parts: a number of papers presented at a workshop dedicated to the correspondence of Michael Psellos, held in Oxford on 67 November 2010, and the summaries of all the letters of Michael Psellos compiled over many years of sustained research for the Prosopography of the Byzantine World project by Michael Jeffreys. The second part is obviously the most important one because it offers Byzantinists a shortcut into the often bewildering, and sometimes incomprehensible, letters of Michael Psellos; but it is hoped that the first part, too, may shed light on Psellos fascinating correspondence.

In an ideal world this volume would have come out after, not before Stratis Papaioannous forthcoming edition of the letters of Psellos; but as this world is far from ideal, we can only pray that this long-awaited edition will appear sooner rather than later. A negative result of our impatience in procuring this volume is that the studies and summaries refer to Psellos letters by what hopefully will soon become the old numbering. But the concordances in Papaioannous edition should solve this problem.

As this is the work of more than one person, readers will soon realize that there are disagreements between the various contributors. Disagreement is good: it is the lifeblood of true scholarship. In the case of Michael Psellos letters, where even the best Hellenists occasionally raise their hands in despair, pretending to know it all would be ridiculous. To quote my co-editor: Few of those who have spent years reading Psellos are confident of getting him right: the writer of these summaries is not one of them; neither am I.

If I have a concern, it is not disagreeing with my colleagues. Nor is it the precariousness of any interpretation in an author as difficult and elusive as Michael Psellos. It is that in an increasingly Greekless world fewer and fewer people are able to read this marvellous epistolographer in the original and understand why he deserves to be reckoned as one of the best stylists in the history of the Greek language. Psellos letters are, together with the Chronographia, his claim to immortality. Please read them. If you cant, at least take the shortcut and read the summariesand then, for heavens sake, learn Greek.

Marc Lauxtermann

Contents
BCHBulletin de Correspondance Hellnique
BFByzantinische Forschungen
BMGSByzantine and Modern Greek Studies
BSlByzantinoslavica
ByzByzantion
BZByzantinische Zeitschrift
CFHBCorpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae
DOPDumbarton Oaks Papers
EEBS
GGautier (see Part II Bibliography)
GRBSGreek, Roman and Byzantine Studies
JBJahrbuch der sterreichischen Byzantinistik
KKarpozilos (see Part II Bibliography)
KDKurtz-Drexl (see Part II Bibliography)
MMaltese (see Part II Bibliography)
MEGMedioevo Greco
MooreP. Moore, Iter Psellianum (Toronto, 2005)
ODBOxford Dictionary of Byzantium
PPapaioannou (see Part II Bibliography)
PBWProsopography of the Byzantine World
REBRevue des tudes Byzantines
RESEERevue des tudes Sud-Est Europennes
SSathas (see Part II Bibliography)
Sathas MB IV.. , (Paris, 1874)
Sathas MB V.. , (Paris, 1876)
SIFCStudi Italiani di Filologia Classica
SnSnipes (see Part II Bibliography)
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