Symeon Metaphrastes
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Symeon Metaphrastes
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Author : Christian Høgel
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2002
Symeon Metaphrastes written by Christian Høgel and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Christian hagiography categories.
The first monograph on the most important Byzantine redactor of saints' lives this book offers a detailed study of the life and working methods of Symeon Metaphrastes, who was active towards the end of the tenth century. The importance of the Metaphrastic redaction has often been measured by the amount of damage it did to the late-antique hagiographical texts, but in the present study it is seen as the culmination of long-term developments within this field. The Metaphrastic collection is studied in the context of its predecessors and in the gradual changes that occurred in the production of hagiography, especially as to the social background of authors, commissioners, and even saints. Emphasis is laid on the gradual redistribution, centralisation and upgrading of hagiographical texts that took place in the Greek world. And in this process rewriting is seen as a vehicle for a canonisation which, even if never instituted in Byzantium, was the intention and, to some degree, the outcome of the Metaphrastic redaction. Christian Høgel, PhD, is research fellow at the Institute for Greek and Latin, University of Copenhagen. He has formerly published a.o. Digterjeg'et i hellenistisk og augustisk poesi (The Poetic I in Hellenistic and Augustan poetry, MTF 1992).
Christian Novels From The Menologion Of Symeon Metaphrastes
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Author : Symeon Metaphrastes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Christian Novels From The Menologion Of Symeon Metaphrastes written by Symeon Metaphrastes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Christian hagiography categories.
The Menologion by Symeon Metaphrastes, among the most important Byzantine religious and literary works, is a culmination of a well-established tradition of Greek storytelling. This edition excerpts six Christian novels, each featuring women who defy social expectations, translated for the first time into English.
Menologion For December 4 13 By Symeon Metaphrastes
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Author : Symeon (Metaphrastes)
language : en
Publisher:
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Menologion For December 4 13 By Symeon Metaphrastes written by Symeon (Metaphrastes) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Christian saints categories.
Symeon Magister
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Author : Symeon Metaphrastes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1838
Symeon Magister written by Symeon Metaphrastes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1838 with categories.
Die Chronik Des Symeon Metaphrastes Und Logothetes
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Author : Symeon (Metaphrastes.)
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Die Chronik Des Symeon Metaphrastes Und Logothetes written by Symeon (Metaphrastes.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with World history categories.
The Ashgate Research Companion To Byzantine Hagiography
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Author : Stephanos Efthymiadis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-02-25
The Ashgate Research Companion To Byzantine Hagiography written by Stephanos Efthymiadis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-25 with History categories.
For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many saints, exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political, social and literary spheres. The selection of saintly heroes, an interest in depicting social landscapes, and the modulation of linguistic and stylistic registers captured the voice of homo byzantinus down to the end of the empire in the fifteenth century. The seventeen chapters in this companion form the sequel to those in volume I which dealt with the periods and regions of Byzantine hagiography, and complete the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. The book is the work of an international group of experts in the field and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of narrative. It highlights the literary dimension and the research potential of a representative number of texts, not only those appreciated by the Byzantines themselves but those which modern readers rank high due to their literary quality or historical relevance.
The Ashgate Research Companion To Byzantine Hagiography
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Author : Professor Stephanos Efthymiadis
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-07-28
The Ashgate Research Companion To Byzantine Hagiography written by Professor Stephanos Efthymiadis and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-28 with History categories.
Hagiography is the most abundantly represented genre of Byzantine literature and it offers crucial insight to the development of religious thought and practice, social and literary life, and the history of the empire. It emerged in the fourth century with the pioneering Life of St Antony and continued to evolve until the end of the empire in the fifteenth century, and beyond. The appeal and dynamics of this genre radiated beyond the confines of Byzantium, and it was practised also in many Oriental and Slavic languages within the orbit of the broader Byzantine world. This companion is the work of an international team of specialists and represents the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. It consists of two volumes and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, Medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of the narrative. This first volume covers the authors and texts of the four distinctive periods during which Greek Byzantine hagiography developed, as well as the hagiography produced in Oriental and Slavic languages and in geographical milieux around the periphery of the empire, from Italy to Armenia. Volume II addresses questions of genres and the social and other contexts of Byzantine hagiography.
John Of Damascus
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Author : Vassa Kontouma
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-05-31
John Of Damascus written by Vassa Kontouma and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-31 with History categories.
For more than five hundred years the life and work of John of Damascus (c. 655-c.745) have been the subject of a very extensive literature, scholarly and popular, in which it is often difficult to get one’s bearings. Through the studies included here (of which 6 appear in a translation into English made specially for this volume), Vassa Kontouma provides a critical review of this literature and attempts to answer several open questions: the author and date of composition of the official Life of John, the philosophical significance of the Dialectica (a study which has its first publication here), the original structure of the Exposition of the Orthodox faith, the identity of ps.-Cyril, the authenticity of the Letter on Great Lent, and questions of Mariology. She also opens new vistas for research along four main lines: the life of John of Damascus and its sources, Neochalcedonian philosophy, systematic theology in Byzantium, and Christian practices under the Umayyads.
The Cult Of St Katherine Of Alexandria In Early Medieval Europe
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Author : Christine Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
The Cult Of St Katherine Of Alexandria In Early Medieval Europe written by Christine Walsh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with History categories.
St Katherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular saints in both the Orthodox and Latin Churches in the later Middle Ages, yet there has been little study of how her cult developed before c. 1200. This book redresses the balance, providing a thorough examination of the way the cult spread from the Greek-speaking lands of the Eastern Mediterranean and into Western Europe. The author uses the full range of source material available, including liturgical texts, hagiographies, chronicles and iconographical evidence, bringing together these often disparate sources to map the way in which the cult of St Katherine grew from its early stages in the Byzantine Empire up to c.1100, its transmission to Italy, and the introduction and development of the cult in Normandy and England up to c.1200. The book also includes appendices listing early manuscripts containing Katherine's Passio and including key original texts on St Katherine of the period. This study will be welcomed by scholars of medieval history and the history of medieval art, and as a case-study for all those with an interest in the development of medieval saint's cults.
Encyclopedia Of Greece And The Hellenic Tradition
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Author : Graham Speake
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-01-31
Encyclopedia Of Greece And The Hellenic Tradition written by Graham Speake and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-31 with History categories.
Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.