Citations:Byzantine Greek


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- The language of Byzantine literature is a written variety of medieval Greek (called “Byzantine Greek” because its production is inextricably linked to Byzantine civilization).


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- In the light of recent research, Byzantine studies should finally abandon its defeatist stance concerning the language of the texts that the Byzantines produced. Byzantine Greek was a highly developed and artful language with close ties both to the living language of the time and to a centuries-old literary heritage. Accordingly, courses on Byzantine Greek should be part of every curriculum of Byzantine studies programs. Byzantine Greek should be taught as a historical variant of the Greek language in its own right, rather than as a degenerated, deficient form of classical Greek, or as an immature form of modern Greek. After the successful completion of both the Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität and the Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek, as a next step, we should now undertake a survey of the morphological and syntactical particularities the written Byzantine language had developed.