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"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. Contributors are Andria Andreou, Anne Alwis, Stavroula Constantinou, Koen de Temmerman, Kristoffel Demoen, Marina Detoraki, Bernard Flusin, Laura Franco, Martin Hinterberger, Christian Høgel, Daria D. Resh, Klazina Staat, Julie van Pelt, Robert Wiśniewski, and John Wortley"--
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Christian saints, History and criticism, HagiographyPlaces
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Metaphrasis: a Byzantine concept of rewriting and its hagiographical products
2021, Boston, Brill, BRILL
in English
9004392173 9789004392175
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Metaphrasis: redactions and audiences in middle Byzantine hagiography
1996, The Research Council of Norway
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8212007480 9788212007482
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"Metaphrasis - the rewriting of texts - was a widespread phenomenon in Byzantium. The distinction between new redactions and new copies is often difficult to maintain. In hagiography, the practice of changing style as well as details of content was not only common but also regarded as quite legitimate. Symeon Metaphrastes, the prime embodiment of the phenomenon, was praised by Michael Psellos for having made the Lives of the saints as radiant as their actual lives and deeds." -- Foreword, p. [3]
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