The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium

Juan Signes Codoñer, Martin Hinterberger, Inmaculada Pérez Martín (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

490 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-22821-1 (ISBN)

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The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium presents an overview of the various rewriting processes involved in the production of Byzantine literature. Due to the lack of recent systematic research on the totality of Byzantine literature, which embraces a long millennium of texts, the fluid concept of ‘rewriting’, here studied for the first time in all its complexity, serves as a unifying criterion for understanding the literary task of the Byzantines. Literature in Byzantium went well beyond the problems of language and genre and was adapted according to the audience and the expectations of the readers, which varied greatly in different periods.

With contributions from 25 scholars, this book analyses and discusses a variety of topics, including the rewriting of the past, modes of persuasion as a driving force behind rewriting, changing muses, the adaptation of hagiography to changing patterns of behaviour, updating of technical texts, and the necessity for theological and philosophical reinterpretation of inherited texts.

This book will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in Byzantine literature, culture, and literary methods.

Juan Signes Codoñer is Professor of Greek at Complutense University (Spain). His research interests include Byzantine historiography, the Greek grammatical tradition, Byzantine law, and the context of Homeric poetry. He is currently serving as President of the Spanish Association of Byzantine Studies (since 2017) and President of the research cluster Bósforo (Complutense University, since 2021). Martin Hinterberger is Professor of Byzantine Literature at the University of Cyprus. His research interests include Byzantine biography and hagiography, medieval Greek as a literary language, Byzantine vernacular literature, Byzantine emotions, and editions of historiographical texts. Inmaculada Pérez Martín is Research Professor at the Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas (CSIC, Spain). Her interests include Greek palaeography, the transmission of Ancient Greek texts, Komnenian and Palaiologan scholars, and Byzantine geography. She led the digitization of the Greek manuscripts of El Escorial DIGITESC project and is currently working on the political and public use of writing in the Byzantine world.

Introduction

0. Preliminary issues

0.1. Levels of Greek

Martin Hinterberger and Juan Signes Codoñer

0.2. Vocabulary for rewriting in Byzantium

Juan Signes Codoñer

0.3. Tracing the Byzantine authors’ understanding of literary imitation

Elisabeth Schiffer

0.4. Σχέδη, dossiers, συλλογαί, compilations, excerpta

Filippo Ronconi

0.5. “Seeds for our tongue’s and our intellect’s training”: Rewriting and Textual Transmission

Inmaculada Pérez Martín

0.6. Collective Rewriting from Late Antiquity to the Palaiologan Period: An Attempt to Trace Collaboration in Literary, Scientific Projects and Manuscript Production

Andras Németh

1. REWRITING OR INVENTING THE PAST?: Historiography and novel

1.1. The unending (re)writing of history

Juan Signes Codoñer

1.2. Rewriting in Historiography: the evidence of the Proems

Eirene Kiapidou

1.3. Late metaphraseis of Byzantine historiographical texts

Martin Hinterberger

1.4. Reworking, Rewriting, and Mouvance in Late-Byzantine Vernacular Literature

Carolina Cupane and Martin Hinterberger

2. THE PLACES OF PERSUASION: Oratory and rhetoric

2.1. Rewriting Homilies and Homilies Rewriting

Petros Tsagkaropoulos

2.2. The rhetoric of rewriting and the rewriting of rhetoric in John Tzetzes

Aglae Pizzone

2.3. Rewriting letters in Byzantium

Michael Grünbart

3. THE CHANGING MUSES: poetry

3.1. The Reuse of Ancient Epigram in Byzantine Poetry. An Overview

Ugo Mondini

3.2. Prosifying classical verses

David Pérez Moro

3.3. Memory and Rewriting in Schedography: The Cases of Fables and Narratives

Nikos Zagklas

4. SELLING PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOUR: Hagiography

4.1. Same Saints, Different Garments: Hagiographic rewriting before Symeon Metaphrastes

Daria Resh

4.2. Hagiography of the Macedonian period and Symeon Metaphrastes Christian Høgel

4.3. Hagiography of the Palaiologan period

Lev Lukhovitskiy

5. SHARING TECHNICAL COMPETENCE: Law, medicine and science

5.1. Rewriting Byzantine law

Marios Tantalos

5.2. The process of re-writing in the production of acts in the Byzantine world

Raúl Estangüi

5.3. Rewriting in Byzantine Medical Literature

Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann

5.4. Rewriting pharmacological treatises

Mónica Durán

5.5. Rewriting Mathematical and Astronomical Treatises

Fabio Acerbi

5.6. Rewriting Ancient Geography

Paula Caballero

6. THE QUEST OF KNOWLEDGE: Philosophy and theology

6.1. Rewriting Techniques in Byzantine Philosophical Commentaries

Michele Trizio

6.2. The last dogmatic conundrum: transmitting and innovating patristic theology on the Holy Spirit

Alessandra Bucossi

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Routledge History Handbooks
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	1090 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-22821-0 / 1032228210
ISBN-13	978-1-032-22821-1 / 9781032228211
Zustand	Neuware