Holiness on the Move

Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-29080-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 421 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies

Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography explores the literary, religious, and social functions of monastic mobility in Byzantine hagiography, touching on aspects of space, narrative, and identity. The ten chapters included in this volume highlight the multifaceted and rich nature of travel narratives, exploring topics such as authorship and audience, narrative structure and function, identity-making and practicalities of and discourse on travel. In terms of geographical span, the case studies cover Constantinople and its hinterland, Asia Minor, mainland Greece, Trebizond, the Balkans, and southern Italy and range chronologically from the end of the sixth to the fourteenth century.

The contributions offer novel insights and perspectives on the importance of mobility in the literary construction of holiness in the Byzantine world and the wider medieval Mediterranean, the spatial dimension of sacred mobility, and the ways in which mobility is employed in the narrative construction of hagiographical texts. As such, the volume joins the burgeoning research on sacred mobilities and will interest students and scholars of Byzantine and medieval literature, religion, and history, as well as a wider readership with an interest in the study of space and mobility.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mitrea, Mihail

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A saint in space: mobility and distance in the Life of Cyril Phileotes / 2. Space, narrative, and compositional structure: constructing authority in the Life of Lazaros of Mount Galesion (BHG 979) / 3. Boundaries of holiness: biography and narrative structure in John Xiphilinos’ Miracula and Passio of St Eugenios of Trebizond / 4. "I went aboard a ship and reached Byzantium:" the motif of travel in edifying stories / 5. The Oration on St John of Damascus by Constantine Akropolites (BHG 885) and its source (BHG 884): a spatial reading / 6. Holiness abroad: Greek saints and hagiography in Norman Italy / 7. Local pilgrimage and historical identity in Slavonic hagiography in Greek translation: two accounts from the Archbishopric of Ohrid / 8. Pilgrimage in thirteenth-century Byzantine Greece: the Life of Barnabas and Sophronios / 9. Theodore the Stoudite on exile / 10. The metaphor of road in Byzantine hagiography

Über Autor(innen)

Mihail Mitrea is a Lecturer in Byzantine history at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and a senior researcher in Byzantine philology at the Institute for South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. He holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Edinburgh (2018). His research was funded by the European Commission (MSCA – IF), Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. He is currently an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cologne. His research was published in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, and Travaux et Mémoires. His research interests include hagiography, epistolography, and prayers in late Byzantium, manuscript studies, and textual criticism.