Papers by Chris Livanos
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The medieval tendency to view Islam as a Christian heresy continues to influence Qurʾanic studies... more The medieval tendency to view Islam as a Christian heresy continues to influence Qurʾanic studies in the Western academy due to the academy's origins as a religious institution and the absence of systematic reckoning by contemporary scholars. Ludovico Marracci's 1698 Qurʾan commentary was both the culmination of the medieval polemic tradition and the blueprint for subsequent Western engagement with the Qurʾan. Though few Qurʾanic scholars have the proficiency in Latin necessary to read Marracci's work, Western Qurʾanic studies continues to overemphasize biblical “sources” for the Qurʾan because the field originated in a methodology that was fundamentally polemical rather than exegetical. This essay proposes models from within the Christian and Muslim traditions that can pave the way toward a break from Biblicist tropes toward an interfaith understanding based on the rich tradition of Muslim exegesis.
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boundary 2, 2023
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Colloquium, 2013
The geographic settings of the stories told by Elissa follow the trajectory first of her namesake... more The geographic settings of the stories told by Elissa follow the trajectory first of her namesake Dido’s journey from Phoenicia to Carthage and then of Aeneas’ journey from Carthage to Rome. The westward movement of culture in Elissa’s stories has many symbolic meanings and can be read as a metaphor for the migration of Greek intellectuals to the West and the subsequent spread of Greek learning throughout the Latin West.
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Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, 2007
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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2006
... great lengths to distinguish between 'buen amor' and 'loco amor', and tro... more ... great lengths to distinguish between 'buen amor' and 'loco amor', and troubadours developed a tradition of distinguishing between 'amor fin' and 'amor fals'.13 Michael's poem is clearly about the negative form of love, although the Byzantines lacked a vocabu-lary to differentiate ...
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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2008
The author reads an epigram by John Mauropous as an engagement with epic and biblical traditions.... more The author reads an epigram by John Mauropous as an engagement with epic and biblical traditions. Critical studies of exile and return from different eras of the Greek literary tradition by Émile Benveniste, Gregory Nagy and Nancy Sultan are used to provide a theoretical approach to the tradition with which Mauropous engages. It is suggested that Mauropous’ wanderings in the territory of the xenos and return to the familiar world of the philos, and especially his personification of his home as a trophos (nurse), allude to Homer, and that epic language and motifs strengthen the poet’s assertion of selfhood and make ancient literary themes relevant to Mauropous’ life as a scholar and churchman.
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Oral Tradition, 2011
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The witty and self-assertive poetry of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous provides unique... more The witty and self-assertive poetry of Christopher of Mytilene and John Mauropous provides unique snapshots of eleventh-century Constantinople at the height of its splendor and elegance. Their collections, aptly called “various verses,” greatly range in length and style—including epigrams, polemics, encomia, and more—and their poems were written for a broad range of social occasions such as court ceremonies, horse races, contests between schools, and funerals. Some were inscribed on icons and buildings. Many honored patrons and friends, debunked rivals, or offered satirical portraits of moral types in contemporary society. In some remarkable introspective poems, Mauropous carefully shaped a narrative of his life and career, while Christopher’s body of work is peppered with riddles and jocular wordplay. This volume is the first English translation of these Byzantine Greek collections.
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Dante Studies, 2009
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The author reads an epigram by John Mauropous as an engagement with epic and biblical traditions.... more The author reads an epigram by John Mauropous as an engagement with epic and biblical traditions. Critical studies of exile and return from different eras of the Greek literary tradition by Émile Benveniste, Gregory Nagy and Nancy Sultan are used to provide a theoretical approach to the tradition with which Mauropous engages. It is suggested that Mauropous' wanderings in the territory of the xenos and return to the familiar world of the philos, and especially his personification of his home as a trophos (nurse), allude to Homer, and that epic language and motifs strengthen the poet's assertion of selfhood and make ancient literary themes relevant to Mauropous' life as a scholar and churchman.
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Conference announcements by Chris Livanos
by Hany Rashwan, Huda Fakhreddine, Zeynep Oktay, Alaaeldin Mahmoud, Simon Leese, Orhan Elmaz, Peter Webb, muneer ak, Talya Fishman, Chris Livanos, Colinda Lindermann, Leila Chamankhah, Suheil Laher, and Aqsa Ijaz The premodern Islamic world was multilingual and multicultural, and by necessity was continually ... more The premodern Islamic world was multilingual and multicultural, and by necessity was continually engaged in comparative critical practices. Mapping the interconnected trajectories of these practices, everywhere they arose between Urdu, Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and other language traditions of Asia and Africa, is the aim of this conference. We invite scholars to employ methodologies based on direct engagement with primary sources that negotiate the multilingual Islamic world(s) in ways that are overlooked or misunderstood by Comparative Literature.
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