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Metaphrasis : A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products

Constantinou, Stavroula and Høgel, Christian LU (2020) In The Medieval Mediterranean 125.
Abstract
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... (More)
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. (Less)
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editor
Constantinou, Stavroula and LU
publishing date
type
Book/Report
publication status
published
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The Medieval Mediterranean
volume
125
pages
393 pages
publisher
Brill
ISSN
0928-5520
ISBN
978-90-04-39217-5
978-90-04-43845-3
DOI
10.1163/9789004438453
language
English
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no
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2104af8a-fc76-45d4-be8c-84b4b26d477e
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2023-01-05 13:57:58
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