Metaphrasis
Subtitle: a Byzantine concept of rewriting and its hagiographical products
By: edited by Stavroula Constantinou, Christian Høgel ; with the assistance of Andria Andreou
Series: The Medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500 -- volume 125; Medieval Mediterranean -- v. 125.
Publisher: Boston; Brill; BRILL
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9789004392175; 9789004438453
Subjects: Christian hagiography; History and criticism; Byzantine Christian literature; Textual Criticism
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

English; one contribution in French.
Table of contents: title: Preface -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- Introduction; title: Metaphrasis Mapping Premodern Rewriting  -- Stavroula Constantinou; title: Early Rewriting : East and West --; title: Relate and Retell : Eastern Monastic Stories and the Beginnings of Latin Hagiography  -- Robert Wiśniewski; title: The Anomalous Transition of Beneficial Tales  -- John Wortley; title: The Greek Vita Malchi : Translating and Rewriting Jerome  -- Klazina Staat, Julie Van Pelt, and Koen De Temmerman; title: Many Faces, a Single Pair : Rewriting Mary and Zosimas in the Legend of Mary of Egypt  -- Andria Andreou; title: Development of a Praxis and a Concept --; title: What Is Metaphrasis? The Case of John of Sardis (BHG 215i)  -- Daria D. Resh; title: The Shape of Water : Rewriting Iconoclasm, Islam, and Deleuze in Byzantine Hagiography  -- Anne Atwis; title: Metaphrasis and Versification : The Paradeisos as a Reworking of Apophthegmata Patrum  -- Kristoffel Demoen; title: À la recherche d'Évariste : Remarques sur les notices du Synaxaire de Constantinople  -- Marina Detoraki and Bernard Flusin; title: Psychological Introspection and the Image of Sanctity in the Metaphrastic Menologion  -- Laura Franco; title: Sanctification of Hagiographers in Byzantium : The Canonization of Symeon Metaphrastes  -- Christian Høgel; title: Late Rewriting --; title: Hagiographical Enkomia as Metaphrasis in the 14th Century : Some Preliminary Observations  -- Martin Hinterberger; title: A Rewriter at Work : Nikephoros Xanthopoulos and the Pege Miracles -- Stavroula Constantinou-- Bibliography-- Index.