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Questions of authority are perennial. Authority has been and still
is a key topic in many studies of history, society, literature, and
religion, just as it is a key issue in contemporary societies. In
spite of the scholarly attention, authority continues to have an
elusive quality. Reframing Authority provides new perspectives by
focusing on the role of materiality and media for questions of
authority, as well as on the changing roles of authority
historically and cross-culturally. The volume argues that forms of
mediation and materiality are crucial in any constitution,
contestation, or transformation of authority. New understanding of
authority can be gained by focusing on materiality and media in
situations where authority is created, contested, or transformed in
different historical eras and cultures. As the in-depth historical
case studies show, authority is dependent upon a range of media and
materiality forms - objects, paraphernalia, spaces and spatial
practices, visual culture, literary forms, technologies, and
bodies. Thus, authority is vulnerable and in need of continual
maintenance, as struggles against, negotiations of, and
transformations within authority constellations demonstrate.
Reframing Authority demonstrates the fundamental relational nature
of authority, makes a contribution to broader debates in the human
sciences and offers a long historical perspective, ranging from
ancient Rome and Christianity, to medieval literature, the early
modern, modern, and contemporary eras in Asia, the Middle East,
Western Europe, Mexico and the US.
Questions of authority are perennial. Authority has been and still
is a key topic in many studies of history, society, literature, and
religion, just as it is a key issue in contemporary societies. In
spite of the scholarly attention, authority continues to have an
elusive quality. Reframing Authority provides new perspectives by
focusing on the role of materiality and media for questions of
authority, as well as on the changing roles of authority
historically and cross-culturally. The volume argues that forms of
mediation and materiality are crucial in any constitution,
contestation, or transformation of authority. New understanding of
authority can be gained by focusing on materiality and media in
situations where authority is created, contested, or transformed in
different historical eras and cultures. As the in-depth historical
case studies show, authority is dependent upon a range of media and
materiality forms - objects, paraphernalia, spaces and spatial
practices, visual culture, literary forms, technologies, and
bodies. Thus, authority is vulnerable and in need of continual
maintenance, as struggles against, negotiations of, and
transformations within authority constellations demonstrate.
Reframing Authority demonstrates the fundamental relational nature
of authority, makes a contribution to broader debates in the human
sciences and offers a long historical perspective, ranging from
ancient Rome and Christianity, to medieval literature, the early
modern, modern, and contemporary eras in Asia, the Middle East,
Western Europe, Mexico and the US.
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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