Organising a Literary Corpus in the Middle Ages: The Corpus Nazianzenum and the Corpus Dionysiacum

Through the word corpus, the metaphor of the body is applied to a collection of works by the same author that are transmitted together. These works not only share the same skin, the manuscript, but also function organically thanks to a complex system of paracontents. It is possible to see this system at work in the case of only a very few medieval authors throughout history, cultures and languages; the Corpus Nazianzenum and the Corpus Dionysiacum are such instances. Both Gregory of Nazianzus and Dionysius the Areopagite are super-authors, who forged their own literary identity as much as they shaped the body of their writings. This sets both corpora apart from other collections of patristic works. They are also exceptional because of the large scale and enduring character of their cultural impact in the different cultures in which the corpora were translated, commented and annotated. By confronting these two exceptional cases, it is possible to gain some new light on the intellectual and book-historical aspects of literary creation and reception in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Table of Contents Living Bodies of Texts Caroline Macé Le Centre d’études sur Grégoire de Nazianze à Louvain-la-Neuve* Bernard Coulie Das Akademievorhaben „Dionysius Areopagita“ in Göttingen Ekkehard Mühlenberg Le palimpseste Parisinus graecus 1330, le plus ancien témoin manuscrit du Corpus Dionysiacum* Margherita Matera Les divisions mauristes des œuvres poétiques de Grégoire de Nazianze, des sous-corpus évolutifs à interroger Pierre-Marie Picard Éléments d’une histoire ancienne de la tradition des discours de Grégoire de Nazianze Caroline Macé Alle origini delle antiche versioni latine delle Orazioni di Gregorio di Nazianzo Alessandro Capone Sur les traces d’une édition byzantine des discours de Grégoire de Nazianze ? Véronique Somers Books for Bibliophiles Maia Matchavariani Gehören παρατιθέναι, παραγράφειν, παρακεῖσθαι zum literarischen oder zum kodikologischen Vokabular? Chiara Faraggiana di Sarzana The Ancient Lexica to the Corpus Dionysiacum Joseph Church School and Scholia in the Syriac Miaphysite Tradition Emiliano Fiori Reading the Areopagite Sergio La Porta Reading the Corpus of Gregory of Nazianzus by Way of the Margins Jonathan Loopstra Les Commentaires de Basile le Minime aux Discours de Grégoire de Nazianze Thomas Schmidt Basile le Minime, commentateur de quel texte de Grégoire de Nazianze ?* Gaëlle Rioual The Corpus Nazianzenum and the Corpus Dionysiacum in the Georgian Literary Tradition Thamar Otkhmezuri Ephrem the Minor’s Preface Revisited* Jost Gippert Bibliography