Byzantine Hagiography: Texts, Themes and Projects (Byzantioc. Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization) (English, French and German Edition) (English, French, Italian and Greek Edition)

An introduction to the current Byzantine hagiographical studies and projects. In recent years Byzantine hagiography has attracted renewed interest of the international community of Byzantine scholars and not only thanks to studies dedicated to this subject and critical editions of individual texts, but also because hagiography has been the main focus of numerous major research projects: databases, new repertories, a new version of the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca and some very useful handbooks dedicated to this literary genre during the Byzantine Empire. These researches have analysed Byzantine hagiography in relation to the hagiographic writings composed in neighbouring areas, the West, the Syriac and Arabic Middle East, the Southern Slavs, etc. but also the relations between the hagiographical texts and other literary genres. This volume introduces the current developments of hagiographical studies and on-going projects on the subject, and investigates a variety of texts and authors from the Patristic period to the end of Byzantium Abbreviations VII Preface IX Bernard Flusin, L’hagiographie byzantine et la recherche : tendances actuelles 1 Xavier Lequeux, La Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca : Origine – Développements – Mise à jour 19 Donatella Bucca, «Codices hymnographici Byzantini antiquiores»: descrizione del database 37 Francesco D’Aiuto, Il «Menologio imperiale». Un secolo dopo l’editio princeps (1911–1912) di Vasilij V. Latyšev 55 Andrea Luzzi, Un canone «giambico» per Basilio di Cesarea e la circoncisione del signore e il suo raffinato acrostico tetrastico fra critica filologico-letteraria e teologia 115 Daria Penskaya, Hagiography and Fairytale Paradise and the Land of the Blessed in Byzantium 141 Yulia Mantova, Space Representation in the Life of St. Gregentios and the Life of St. Nikon the Metanoite 157 Marina Detoraki, Récits édifiants et hagiographie. À propos du Pré spirituel 167 Sophie Métivier, Peut-on parler d’une hagiographie aristocratique à Byzance (viiie–xie siècle) ? 179 Denis Kashtanov, Alexander Korolev, Andrey Vinogradov, The Chronology of the Hagiographic Tradition of St Clement of Rome 201 Sergey A. Ivanov, The Life of Patriarch John the Faster as a Historical Source 221 Vincent Déroche, Les deux Vies de Théodose le cénobiarque 233 Katerina Nikolaou, The Depiction of Byzantine Woman in Hagiographical Texts (Eighth–Eleventh Centuries) 247 André Binggeli, La réception de l’hagiographie palestinienne à Byzance après les conquêtes arabes 265 Serge A. Frantsouzoff, La réception et le développement de l’hagiographie byzantine dans le milieu arabe orthodoxe (d’après un recueil hagiographique arabe de la Bibliothèque de l’Académie Roumaine) 285 Albrecht Berger, Serienproduktion oder Autorenwettbewerb? Einige Bemerkungen zu Byzantinischen hagiographischen Texten des zehnten Jahrhunderts 299 Alice-Mary Talbot, Some Observations on the Life of St. Basil the Younger 313 Dmitry Afinogenov, Integration of Hagiograhic Texts into Historical Narrative: The Cases of the Lives of St. Stephen the Younger and Niketas of Medikion 325 Lev Lukhovitskiy, Perception of Iconoclasm in Late Byzantine Hagiographical Metaphraseis 341 Nike Koutrakou, The Hagiographers’ Pen. Painting Social Unrest and Civil Strife in Late Byzantium 365 Eleonora Kountoura Galaki, Ideological Conflicts in Veiled Language as Seen by the Palaiologan Hagiographers. The Lives of St. Theodosia as a Case Study 401 Andrea Babuin, Il dittico di Cuenca e l’Epiro in epoca tardo-medievale 419 Smilja Marjanović-Dušanić, Le changement de la fonction des récits anachorétiques : l’hagiographie balkano-slave dans le cadre de la fin du xiiie siècle 451 Antonio Rigo, Marco Scarpa, The Life of Theodosius of Tărnovo Reconsidered 467 Index List of Illustrations 483 Names of Persons: Ancient and Medieval 484 Modern Authors 495 An introduction to the current Byzantine hagiographical studies and projects.00In recent years Byzantine hagiography has attracted renewed interest of the international community of Byzantine scholars and not only thanks to studies dedicated to this subject and critical editions of individual texts, but also because hagiography has been the main focus of numerous major research projects: databases, new repertories, a new version of the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca and some very useful handbooks dedicated to this literary genre during the Byzantine Empire. These researches have analysed Byzantine hagiography in relation to the hagiographic writings composed in neighbouring areas, the West, the Syriac and Arabic Middle East, the Southern Slavs, etc. but also the relations between the hagiographical texts and other literary genres.0This volume introduces the current developments of hagiographical studies and on-going projects on the subject, and investigates a variety of texts and authors from the Patristic period to the end of Byzantium 'In recent years Byzantine hagiography has attracted renewed interest of the international community of Byzantine scholars and not only thanks to studies dedicated to this subject and critical editions of individual texts, but also because hagiography has been the main focus of numerous major research projects: databases, new repertories, a new version of the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca and some very useful handbooks dedicated to this literary genre during the Byzantine Empire. These researches have analysed Byzantine hagiography in relation to the hagiographic writings composed in neighbouring areas, the West, the Syriac and Arabic Middle East, the Southern Slavs, etc. but also the relations between the hagiographical texts and other literary genres. This volume introduces the current developments of hagiographical studies and on-going projects on the subject, and investigates a variety of texts and authors from the Patristic period to the end of Byzantium."-- Publisher's website