TY  - BOOK
AU  - Constantinou,Stavroula
AU  - Høgel,Christian
TI  - Metaphrasis:A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products
T2  - Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004407404
SN  - 9789004438453
AV  - PR6019.O9 
U1  - 823/.912 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL, 
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004438453
ER  -