An unpublished «plaint for Constantinople» in a codex in the monastery of the Great Archangels, Grevena


Μ. Γ. Βαρβούνης
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The writer presents and comments on an unpublished text in a fragment of a manuscript in the Monastery of the Archangels, Grevena, concerning a plague epidemic in Constantinople. He also includes comments based on historical data and folklore relating to the sources of the text and the various references it contains, the historical circumstances, the cultural environment, and how a reading of the poem can shed light on the historical context of the period to which it refers. 

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