Michael Glykas

... In the 12th century, a type of literature appeared that was written in popular language and confronted its own era with the backdrop of a large city. These were the so-called Ptocoprodromica (Works of the Four Poor Forerunners), a poem about a monk who was a thief, a prostitute, a sad monk, and a useless education, and there is debate as to whether the author was the same person as the liberal literature Theodoros Prodromos; the anonymous didactic poem Spaneas about real life; and the so-called prison poems by Michael Glykas (?-c. 1204), who also wrote the liberal literature Chronicle of the World. After the 13th century, a period of decline, the three major romantic love poems in popular language that appeared in the 14th and 15th centuries should be mentioned at the top of the list. ...

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…　12世紀をもって，民衆用語で書かれ，大都会を背景に自らの時代と向きあう一文学が現れる。恐妻物語，売文詩人譚，哀れな修道士，むだな教育，を内容とする詩作品で，著者が教養文学のテオドロス･プロドロモスと同一人物かどうか論争がある，いわゆる《プトコプロドロミカ(哀れな先駆け4人の作品)》，実生活についての，著者不詳の教訓詩《スパネアス》，そして教養文学作品《世界年代記》の著者でもあるミハエル･グリュカスMichaēl Glykas(？‐1204ころ)のいわゆる獄中詩，の3点がそれである。　低迷期の13世紀を経て，14～15世紀に相次いで現れる民衆文学作品の筆頭に挙げられるべきは，民衆用語による三大恋愛ロマン詩作品，《カリマコスとクリュソロエ》《ベルタンドロスとクリュサンツァ》《リュビストロスとロダムネ》である。…

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