Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products

This volume represents the first discussion of rewriting in Byzantium. It brings together a rich variety of articles treating hagiographical rewriting from various angles. The contributors discuss and comment on different kinds of texts from late antiquity to late Byzantium.

About the author

Stavroula Constantinou, Ph.D. (2003), Free University of Berlin, is Associate Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Cyprus. She has published a monograph, edited volumes and many articles on hagiography, poetics, gender, and the body, including Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture (co-edited with Mati Meyer; Basingstoke 2019).
Christian Høgel, Ph.D. (2000), University of Bergen, is Professor of Byzantine lLiterature at the University of Southern Denmark. He has published widely on Byzantine rewriting, including Symeon Metaphrastes. Rewriting and Canonization (Copenhagen, 2002).

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2020
• EAN: 9789004392175
• ISBN: 978-90-04-39217-5
• No. of pages: 408
• Weight: 805 g
• Series: Medieval Mediterranean
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History