Metaphrasis
Subtitle: redactions and audiences in middle Byzantine hagiography
By: edited by Christian Høgel.
Contributors: Høgel, Christian.
Series: KULTs skriftserie -- no.59
Publisher: The Research Council of Norway
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oslo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
Subjects: Hagiography -- History and criticism.; Christian saints -- Byzantine Empire.
Notes: "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]

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Contents: The Redaction of Symeon Metaphrastes : literary aspects of the Metaphrastic martyria / Christian Hogel; value: Metaphrastic lives and earlier metaphraseis of saints' lives / Elisabeth Schiffer; value: Changing styles and changing mentalities : the secondary versions of the Life of St. Philaretos the Merciful / Jan Olof Rosenqvist; value: The Byzantine hagiographer and his audience in the ninth and tenth centuries / Stephanos Efthymiadis.