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Symeon Metaphrastes - Rewriting & Canonization (Hardcover)
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Symeon Metaphrastes - Rewriting & Canonization (Hardcover)
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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 Hogel, 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).
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