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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.
List of contents
Introduction0. Preliminary issues0.1. 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. ¿¿¿¿¿, dossiers, ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿, 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
About the author
Juan Signes Codoñer is Professor of Greek at Complutense University (Spain). His research interests include Byzantine historiography, the Greek grammatical tradition, Byzantine law, and Homeric literacy. 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.
