Metaphrasis:A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products /
Metaphrasis:A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products /
edited by Stavroula Constantinou, Christian Høgel.
- 1 online resource.
- Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004407404 The Medieval Mediterranean ; 125 .
- Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004407404. The Medieval Mediterranean ; 125. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products represents a first and authoritative discussion of rewriting in Byzantium. It brings together a rich variety of articles that treat the topic of hagiographical rewriting from various angles.The contributors discuss and comment on different kinds of texts in Greek and other languages, including Apophthegmata Patrum , Passions, Saints' Lives, Enkomia, Miracle Collections, Synaxaria , and Menologia which date from late antiquity to late Byzantium. The volume offers a series of case studies examining how the same legends evolved through time by the process of rewriting. It is shown that the main driving force behind such rewriting was adaptation to different audiences and contexts. This work argues that rewriting is central to Christian cultures in the Middle Ages.
9789004438453 9789004392175
10.1163/9789004438453 DOI
History.
PR6019.O9
823/.912
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products represents a first and authoritative discussion of rewriting in Byzantium. It brings together a rich variety of articles that treat the topic of hagiographical rewriting from various angles.The contributors discuss and comment on different kinds of texts in Greek and other languages, including Apophthegmata Patrum , Passions, Saints' Lives, Enkomia, Miracle Collections, Synaxaria , and Menologia which date from late antiquity to late Byzantium. The volume offers a series of case studies examining how the same legends evolved through time by the process of rewriting. It is shown that the main driving force behind such rewriting was adaptation to different audiences and contexts. This work argues that rewriting is central to Christian cultures in the Middle Ages.
9789004438453 9789004392175
10.1163/9789004438453 DOI
History.
PR6019.O9
823/.912