Lexicon on Byzantine Graciousness

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The lexicon on Byzantine graciousness, especially the 9th-12th centuries. Century ( LBG ) is currently the leading dictionary of Byzantine Greek in its higher stylistic levels. It closes the lexicographical gap between the Greek-English Lexicon by Liddell-Scott-Jones and the Patristic Greek Lexicon by Lampe on the one hand and the Lexicon of Central Greek Folk Literature 1100–1669 by Emmanuel Kriaras on the other. It largely replaces the only comprehensive dictionary to date for Byzantine Greek, the Glossarium ad scriptores mediae et infimae Graecitatis by Du Cange from 1688, the title of which is followed by the structure and choice of words of its own title, and also the Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods by EA Sophocles .

history

A lexicon to Byzantine Greek was one of the most urgent research desiderates of Byzantine studies. In view of various initiatives at the international congresses of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines , Erich Trapp began working on his own at the University of Bonn from 1974 , and then from 1982 together with Johannes Diethart and Wolfram Hörandner in Vienna. The project received decisive funding from the end of 1985 by the Austrian Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research , and from the end of 1986 also by the German Research Foundation . An anthology on various aspects of lexicographical work was published in 1988. In March 1989 a symposium on this subject was held in Vienna, and in July 2007 another colloquium in Bonn. The first fascicle appeared in 1994, the eighth and last fascicle in 2017. A supplement is being worked on and it will be made available online.

Goal setting

The lexicon covers new and rare words in high-level literature from around 900 to around 1200 (as completely as possible in the areas of historiography, rhetoric, poetry and theology, especially document collections; the specialist fields are included in the selection). In addition, earlier texts are taken into account in order to supplement the Patristic Greek Lexicon by Lampe to close the gap to Liddell-Scott-Jones . Texts from the late Byzantine period (from the 13th to the 15th centuries) are essentially only taken into account if they are accessible through indices. Older lexicons, such as that of EA Sophocles , are evaluated, as is the material from the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae of the University of California, Irvine (TLG), whose keyword-searchable text collection is an important tool in the creation of this lemmatized lexicon.

Bibliographical information

  • Erich Trapp (with the collaboration of Wolfram Hörandner and Johannes Diethart and others): Lexicon on Byzantine Graecity, especially the 9th – 12th centuries. Century . Publisher's ad
    • Volume 1: Α - Κ (Publications of the Byzantine Studies Commission VI / 1-4). Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7001-2991-2
      • Fascicle 1: Α - ἀργυροζώμιον (Publications of the Byzantine Studies Commission VI / 1). Vienna 1994, ISBN 978-3-7001-2150-3
      • Fascicle 2: ἀργυροθώραξ - δυσαύχενος (Publications of the Byzantine Studies Commission VI / 2). Vienna 1996, ISBN 978-3-7001-2552-5
      • Fascicle 3: δυσαφής - ζωόσοφος (Publications of the Byzantine Studies Commission VI / 3). Vienna 1999, ISBN 978-3-7001-2794-9
      • Fascicle 4: ζωοσταγής - κώφευσις (Publications of the Byzantine Studies Commission VI / 4). Vienna, ISBN 3-7001-2990-4
    • 2nd volume: Λ - Ω .
      • Fascicle 5: Λ - παλιάνθρωπος (Publications of the Byzantine Studies Commission VI / 5). Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-7001-3344-5
      • Fascicle 6: παλιγγενεσία - προσπελαγίζω (Publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies VI / 6). Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7001-3720-7
      • Fascicle 7: προσπέλασις - ταριχευτικῶς (publications on Byzantium research VI / 7). Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-7001-6904-8
      • Fascicle 8: ταριχευτικῶς - ὤχρωμα (Publications on Byzantine Research , VI / 8). Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7001-7996-2
    • Complete list of abbreviations. Vienna 2017.

In cooperation with the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae of the University of California, Irvine (TLG), the lexicon on Byzantine greatness is also accessible online after free registration.

Reviews

Accompanying publications

  • Elisabeth Schiffer: The Lexicon for Byzantine Graciousness - A long-term project of Viennese Byzantine Studies , in: Andreas Külzer (Ed.), Herbert Hunger and the Vienna School of Byzantine Studies. Retrospect and Prospect. Novi Sad 2019, ISBN 978-86-6263-243-2 , pp. 167-178.
  • Erich Trapp, Sonja Schönauer (eds.): Lexicologica byzantina. Contributions to the colloquium on Byzantine lexicography (Bonn, 13-15 July 2007) (=  Super alta perennis: Studies on the effects of classical antiquity . Volume 4 ). University Press at V&R unipress, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-484-5 (German, French, Greek).
  • Wolfram Hörandner, Erich Trapp (eds.): Lexicographica Byzantina, contributions to the symposium on Byzantine lexicography (Vienna, March 1-4, 1989) (Byzantina Vindobonensia, 20). Vienna 1991, ISBN 978-3-7001-1853-4 .
  • Erich Trapp, Johannes Diethart, Georgios Fatouros , Astrid Steiner, Wolfram Hörandner: Studies on Byzantine Lexicography (Byzantina Vindobonensia 18). Vienna 1988, ISBN 978-3-7001-1517-5 .
  • List of accompanying publications (online)

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