Books by stephanos efthymiadis
Cambridge University Press, 2025
In an empire such as Byzantium, where the large urban centres monopolised cultural activity and l... more In an empire such as Byzantium, where the large urban centres monopolised cultural activity and literary creation, writing texts in praise of local saints offered a noteworthy incentive for literary expression on the periphery. Between the establishment of Christianity on the island in the fourth century and its passing from Byzantine to Frankish rule in the thirteenth, Cyprus saw a significant number of hagiographical texts dedicated to its bishop saints and defending the claims and privileges of its Church. This book offers the first systematic study of this body of texts, inquiring into their literary background and engagement both with contemporary Mediterranean history and with issues specifically affecting Cyprus. It also draws attention to hagiographical texts written in later times as reflecting the enduring interest of Byzantine Christianity in the saints of Cyprus, whose cult had by then acquired a universal appeal.
Πανεπιστημιακές Ἐκδόσεις Κρήτης, 2025
Ἡ ἑλληνική μετάφραση τοῦ Α΄ τόμου τοῦ The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography πλα... more Ἡ ἑλληνική μετάφραση τοῦ Α΄ τόμου τοῦ The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography πλαισωμένη μὲ βιβλιογραφικές καὶ ἄλλες προσθῆκες.
Η Βυζαντινή Αγιολογία της Κύπρου / The Byzantine Hagiography of Cyprus, 2020
Οι άγιοι, οι συγγραφείς και τα κείμενα (4 ος-13 ος αιώνας) ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΣ ΕΥΘΥΜΙΑΔΗΣ Η ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΗ ΑΓΙΟΛΟ... more Οι άγιοι, οι συγγραφείς και τα κείμενα (4 ος-13 ος αιώνας) ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΣ ΕΥΘΥΜΙΑΔΗΣ Η ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΗ ΑΓΙΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ Οι άγιοι, οι συγγραφείς και τα κείμενα (4ος-13ος αιώνας) ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΩΝ ΕΡΕΥΝΩΝ ΠΗΓΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΛΕΤΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ-LXXXV-ΛΕΥΚΩΣΙΑ 2020 Cover:
The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume II: Genres and Contexts
For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many saints, exhib... more For an entire millennium, Byzantine hagiography, inspired by the veneration of many saints, exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political, social and literary spheres. The selection of saintly heroes, an interest in depicting social landscapes, and the modulation of linguistic and stylistic registers captured the voice of homo byzantinus down to the end of the empire in the fifteenth century.
The seventeen chapters in this companion form the sequel to those in volume I which dealt with the periods and regions of Byzantine hagiography, and complete the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. The book is the work of an international group of experts in the field and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of narrative. It highlights the literary dimension and the research potential of a representative number of texts, not only those appreciated by the Byzantines themselves but those which modern readers rank high due to their literary quality or historical relevance.
Contents: Introduction, Stephanos Efthymiadis. Part I Genres, Varieties and Forms: Byzantine hagiography and its literary genres. Some critical observations, Martin Hinterberger; Greek passions of the martyrs in Byzantium, Marina Detoraki; Collections of miracles (fifth-fifteenth centuries), Stephanos Efthymiadis; Collections of edifying stories, André Binggeli; Greek Byzantine hagiography in verse, Stephanos Efthymiadis; Symeon Metaphrastes and the metaphrastic movement, Christian Høgel; Synaxaria and the synaxarion of Constantinople, Andrea Luzzi. Part II Hagiography as Literature: The Byzantine hagiographer and his text, Martin Hinterberger; Audience, language and patronage in Byzantine hagiography, Stephanos Efthymiadis - Nikos Kalogeras; Byzantine hagiography and hymnography: an interrelationship, Antonia Giannouli; Fiction and/or novelisation in Byzantine hagiography, Charis Messis; Holy actors and actresses fools and cross-dressers as the protagonists of saints’ Lives, Stavroula Constantinou; The literary portrait of Byzantine female saints, Nathalie Delierneux. Part III Hagiography and Society: Economy and society in Byzantine hagiography: realia and methodological questions, Michel Kaplan - Eleonora Kountoura-Galaki; The city in Byzantine hagiography, Helen G. Saradi; The hagiography of doubt and scepticism, Anthony Kaldellis. Indexes.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume I: Periods and Places
Hagiography is the most abundantly represented genre of Byzantine literature and it offers crucia... more Hagiography is the most abundantly represented genre of Byzantine literature and it offers crucial insight to the development of religious thought and practice, social and literary life, and the history of the empire. It emerged in the fourth century with the pioneering Life of St Antony and continued to evolve until the end of the empire in the fifteenth century, and beyond. The appeal and dynamics of this genre radiated beyond the confines of Byzantium, and it was practised also in many Oriental and Slavic languages within the orbit of the broader Byzantine world.
This Companion is the work of an international team of specialists and represents the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. It consists of two volumes and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, Medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of the narrative. This first volume covers the authors and texts of the four distinctive periods during which Greek Byzantine hagiography developed, as well as the hagiography produced in Oriental and Slavic languages and in geographical milieux around the periphery of the empire, from Italy to Armenia. Volume II addresses questions of genres and the social and other contexts of Byzantine hagiography.
Contents: Introduction, Stephanos Efthymiadis; Part I The Periods of Byzantine Hagiography: The Life of St Antony between biography and hagiography, Tomas Hägg; Greek hagiography in late antiquity (4th–7th centuries), Stephanos Efthymiadis with Vincent Déroche (with contributions by André Binggeli and Zissis Aïnalis); Hagiography from the 'dark age' to the age of Symeon Metaphrastes (8th–10th centuries), Stephanos Efthymiadis; The hagiography of the 11th and 12th centuries, Symeon A. Paschalidis; Hagiography in late Byzantium (1204–1453), Alice-Mary Talbot. Part II The Hagiography of the Byzantine Periphery and the Christian Orient: Palestinian hagiography (4th–8th centuries), Bernard Flusin; Italo-Greek hagiography, Mario Re; Syriac hagiography, Sebastian P. Brock; Georgian hagiography, Bernadette Martin-Hisard; Armenian hagiography, S. Peter Cowe; Hagiography in Coptic, Arietta Papaconstantinou; Arabic hagiography, Mark N. Swanson; Slavic hagiography, Ingunn Lunde; Latin hagiographical literature translated into Greek, Xavier Lequeux; Indexes.
Hagiography in Byzantium: Literature, Social History and Cult
Involving a vast number of texts, saintly heroes and authors, Byzantine hagiography stands out as... more Involving a vast number of texts, saintly heroes and authors, Byzantine hagiography stands out as a field of scholarly research highly rewarding for both the philologist and the historian. The studies reproduced in this volume cover a chronological range from late antiquity to the Paleologan era. They bring together annotated editions of specific texts and discussions of their contexts, complemented by comprehensive surveys of saintly and monastic cult. Having appeared over the last twenty years, they also illustrate and reflect upon the significant development and re-orientation which has marked the study of hagiography in recent decades.
Contents: Preface; New developments in hagiography: the rediscovery of Byzantine hagiography; Part A Late Antiquity: Living in a city and living in a scetis: the dream of Eustathios the Banker (BHG Nov. Auct. 1317d); A day and ten months in the life of a lonely bachelor: the other Byzantium in Miracula S. Artemii 18 and 22; De debito bis soluto: an edifying story on the administered oath (BHG Novum Auctarium 1317n); Two Gregories and three genres: autobiography, autohagiography and hagiography. Part B The Age of Iconoclasm and Post-Iconoclasm: John of Sardis and the metaphrasis of the Passio of St. Nikephoros the Martyr (BHG 1334); Le panégyrique de S. Théophane le Confesseur par S. Théodore Stoudite (BHG 1792b). édition critique du texte intégral; The Byzantine hagiographer and his audience in the 9th and 10th centuries; Hagiographica varia (9th–10th c.); The function of the Holy Man in Asia Minor in the Middle Byzantine period; Establishing a holy lineage: Theodore the Stoudite's funerary catechism for his mother; Le miracle et les saints durant et après le second iconoclasme; Medieval Thessalonike and the Miracles of its saints: big and small demands made on exclusive rights (9th–12th centuries); D'Orient en Occident mais étranger aux deux mondes: messages et renseignements tirés de la Vie de Saint Nicolas le Pèlerin (BHL 6223); Le monastère de la Source à Constantinople et ses deux recueils de miracles: entre hagiographie et patriographie. Part C Late Byzantium: Late Byzantine collections of miracles and their implications; Addenda et corrigenda; Indexes.
Niketas Choniates: A Historian and a Writer, eds. A. Simpson and S. Efthymiadis, Geneva 2009
The volume Niketas Choniates. A Historian and a Writer (eds.) A. Simpson and S. Efthymiadis is t... more The volume Niketas Choniates. A Historian and a Writer (eds.) A. Simpson and S. Efthymiadis is the first scholarly volume to be published on the History of Niketas Choniates. Its major aim is to offer new perspectives on how the History of Niketas Choniates should be read and interpreted. As such, it follows an interdisciplinary approach and is concerned with a wide range of aspects of this lengthy, significant, and multi-faceted text. The ten essays examine various historical, literary, theological, and art historical issues of the text and demonstrate how these should be viewed as an integral part of the narrative. Moreover, alongside more traditional historical analysis and source-criticism, several essays promote the reading of the text as a literary artefact and uncover the rhetorical techniques by which historical reality was represented by a highly educated and intelligent eye-witness of dramatic events. It is expected that the volume will make a major contribution to scholarship on the subject and stimulate interest and discussion on the History and its author. Due to its interdisciplinary character, it will be of particular value not only for scholars and students of Byzantine literature and culture, but also for those working in related fields, such as art history, medieval history, literary interpretation, and theology.
Contents:
Introduction, Alicia Simpson, Niketas Choniates: the Historian and Stephanos Efthymiadis, Niketas Choniates: the Writer
Paul Magdalino, Prophecy and Divination in the History
Anthony Kaldellis, Paradox, Reversal and the Meaning of History
Stephanos Efthymiadis, Greek and Biblical Exempla in the Service of an Artful Writer
Roderick Saxey, The Homeric Metamorphoses of Andronikos I Komnenos
John Davis, The History Metaphrased: Changing Readership in the Fourteenth Century
Luciano Bossina, Niketas Choniates as a Theologian
Alicia Simpson, Narrative Images of Medieval Constantinople
Titos Papamastorakis, Interpreting the De Signis of Niketas Choniates
The Prosopography of Byzantine Lesbos, 284-1355 A.D.: A Contribution to the Social History of the Byzantine Province (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010 = Denkschriften der philosophish-historischen Klasse v. 403 = Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung v. 22)
co-authored with Anthony Kaldellis.
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Questions de chronologie sur Ramon Muntaner (ch. 234) et Georges Pachymère (XIII, 27–38): la prise de Phocée et de Thasos en 1307, 2008
Tout débat sur la chronologie des événements historiques n'émane que du silence absolu ou de la c... more Tout débat sur la chronologie des événements historiques n'émane que du silence absolu ou de la contradiction des sources: la période de 1303-1310, tourmentée par l'activité de la Compagnie catalane en Égée, en Thrace et enfin en Grèce méridionale en fournit un bon exemple. Les deux sources narratives principales, les Relations Historiques de Georges Pachymérès et la Chronique catalane de Ramon Muntaner, sont non seulement couvertes de zones d'ombre mais elles présentent aussi plusieurs points de divergence; une troisième, l'Histoire Romaine de Niképhoros Grégoras, bien qu'appartenant à un registre différent des deux autres, n'offre qu'un intérêt secondaire. Mais les expéditions catalanes en Orient furent aussi consignées dans des sources supplémentaires, notamment des documents notariaux de provenance aragonaise, génoise ou autre 1. Rédigés en latin ou en catalan et traitant surtout d'affaires relatives aux intérêts des forces occidentales, tantôt d'Aragon tantôt de Gênes, face à l'Orient byzantin, ces documents présentent un avantage considérable par rapport aux sources narratives surtout dans les cas où ils sont datés de manière ferme et précise. Dispersés cependant dans des éditions variées, ils courent quelquefois le risque de passer inaperçus pour tous ceux qui reconstituent le fil chronologique et événementiel de la période en question. Parmi les collections de tels documents, la plus complète reste celle du savant catalan Antonio Rubió y Lluch qui, * Nous tenons à remercier nos amis et collègues le prof. M. Jean-Marie Martin (C.N.R.S., Paris) et la prof. M me Eleni Sakellariou (Université de Crète) qui nous ont aidés à rassembler les sources catalanes, aragonaises et génoises. 1 Pour l'analyse de l'histoire de l'époque et un bon exposé des sources littéraires et documentaires de cette période on se reportera à l'ouvrage de A.E. LAIOU,
The cult of saints in Constantinople (sixth-twelfth c.): Some observations
Interacting with saints in the late antique and medieval worlds, ed. R. Wiśniewski, R. Van Dam and B. Ward-Perkins, Hagiologia vol. 20, Brepols: Turnhout, p. 161-180, 2023
Known as the Virgin’s city and teeming with churches and shrines hosting precious holy relics, Co... more Known as the Virgin’s city and teeming with churches and shrines hosting precious holy relics, Constantinople never developed the cult-worship of traditional saints (apostles and martyrs) on a level that marked other Christian cities. At times the promotion of a saint’s cult was due to an emperor’s personal devotion and resulted in relics brought into the imperial city. Yet, first and foremost, in late antiquity religious foundations dedicated to saints in the capital owed their construction or restoration to private benefactors and to the sponsorship and support by communities of immigrants coming especially from the eastern provinces. In terms of potential and dynamic, the cults of new saints after the end of Iconoclasm (843), whether of patriarchs, monks, or figures that never existed, could not compete with the saints of early Christianity. All in all, the plurality of holy shrines and relics that pilgrims and visitors to Constantinople recorded in their accounts from the twelfth century onwards points to the coexistence of many cultic microcosms rather than to an endeavour to impose monopolies on the urban religious landscape.
Introduction, Edition and Annotation by S. Efthymiadis, Translation by J.M. Featherstone. Στο Theatron. Rhetorische Kultur in Spätantike und Mittelalter/Rhetorical Culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Millennium Studies, ed. M. Grünbart., 2007
Introduction, Edition and Annotation by S. Efthymiadis, Translation by J.M. Featherstone. In Thea... more Introduction, Edition and Annotation by S. Efthymiadis, Translation by J.M. Featherstone. In Theatron. Rhetorische Kultur in Spätantike und Mittelalter/Rhetorical Culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Millennium Studies, ed. M. Grünbart, Berlin 2007, p. 13–51.
Constructing saints in Greek and Latin hagiography. Heroes and Heroines in Late Antique and Medieval Narrative, ed. K. de Temmerman, J. van Pelt and Kl. Staat, Fabulae. Narrative in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 2, Brepols eds, Turnhout, p. 33-56. , 2023
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Please note this article is published with Brepols Publishers as a Gold Open Access article under a Creative Commons CC 4.0: BY-NC license.
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Cahiers balkaniques, 2012
L'intérêt scientifique que nous avons porté à Phocée est né de la publication du dossier perdu et... more L'intérêt scientifique que nous avons porté à Phocée est né de la publication du dossier perdu et retrouvé de Félix Sartiaux, qui contient des rapports et des lettres concernant ses fouilles à l'intérieur de la ville et dans ses alentours pendant la période troublée entre 1914 et 1922. C'est en l'an 2000 que mon collègue Andréas Mazarakis, spécialisé dans l'étude de la période de la domination génoise en mer Égée, a découvert dans les archives de l'École Française d'Athènes ce que les archéologues qui ont repris l'oeuvre de Sartiaux dans cette région cherchaient depuis longtemps. À coup sûr, le dossier de Sartiaux, que l'on a publié par la suite dans le Bulletin du Centre des études d'Asie Mineure et qui comprend des lettres, des notes d'ensemble, des cartes et des photos, n'offrait qu'un intérêt marginal pour cette période très tardive. Son orientation archéologique le conduisait plutôt vers l'époque archaïque et classique. Ce dossier contenait néanmoins quelques témoignages intéressants sur l'époque byzantine et génoise qui, comme des pièces éparses, pourraient servir à améliorer notre connaissance sur une période de longue durée, mais que l'on qualifie, non sans raison, d'obscure 1 . 2 À la ville ionienne la plus septentrionale, l'Histoire n'a réservé que deux périodes d'apogée économique et sociale : a) la période archaïque où Phocée s'est avérée une métropole et une puissance navale (VII e et VI e siècles avant notre ère) et b) la période entre le dernier quart du XIII e siècle et l'an 1455, lorsque la ville a été conquise par les Ottomans. Entre ces deux périodes très éloignées dans le temps, Phocée avait connu le déclin pendant l'époque classique, hellénistique et romaine. D'abord alliée aux Athéniens, elle a été ensuite soumise aux Perses, puis à Alexandre, aux Séleucides, à Attale de Pergame, et enfin aux Romains. Cependant, elle n'est pas passée complètement inaperçue dans les sources qui, outre son passé glorieux, mentionnent, quoiqu'en passant, ce que sa terre et ses habitants produisent : de la céramique, du marbre, des vêtements de pourpre, de verres à boire, des éventails, et surtout des Phocée byzantine et génoise : une croissance urbaine Cahiers balkaniques, 40 | 2012
Single People in Early Byzantine Literature, 2018
Published in Singles and the Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman Worlds, ed. C. Laes, S. Hüb... more Published in Singles and the Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman Worlds, ed. C. Laes, S. Hübner, Cambridge University Press 2018.
Deltion of the Christian Archeological Society, 2021
One of the scenes of martyrdom that Ignatios the Deacon rhetorically records in the iconographic ... more One of the scenes of martyrdom that Ignatios the Deacon rhetorically records in the iconographic programme he describes in his Life of Patriarch Tarasios (BHG 1698) is of a martyr who performed “his funeral dance in public without entrails”. Identifying this unnamed figure with St Mamas gave the author the opportunity to rehearse the saint’s iconography in the Byzantine and post-Byzantine periods, with special focus on the depiction of his martyrdom. The personal perspective from which Ignatios viewed his task in rhetorically elaborating on this particular iconographic programme is also considered.
Parry/The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics, 2015
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Proceedings of a Conference on Byzantine Athens, 2021
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The seventeen chapters in this companion form the sequel to those in volume I which dealt with the periods and regions of Byzantine hagiography, and complete the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. The book is the work of an international group of experts in the field and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of narrative. It highlights the literary dimension and the research potential of a representative number of texts, not only those appreciated by the Byzantines themselves but those which modern readers rank high due to their literary quality or historical relevance.
Contents: Introduction, Stephanos Efthymiadis. Part I Genres, Varieties and Forms: Byzantine hagiography and its literary genres. Some critical observations, Martin Hinterberger; Greek passions of the martyrs in Byzantium, Marina Detoraki; Collections of miracles (fifth-fifteenth centuries), Stephanos Efthymiadis; Collections of edifying stories, André Binggeli; Greek Byzantine hagiography in verse, Stephanos Efthymiadis; Symeon Metaphrastes and the metaphrastic movement, Christian Høgel; Synaxaria and the synaxarion of Constantinople, Andrea Luzzi. Part II Hagiography as Literature: The Byzantine hagiographer and his text, Martin Hinterberger; Audience, language and patronage in Byzantine hagiography, Stephanos Efthymiadis - Nikos Kalogeras; Byzantine hagiography and hymnography: an interrelationship, Antonia Giannouli; Fiction and/or novelisation in Byzantine hagiography, Charis Messis; Holy actors and actresses fools and cross-dressers as the protagonists of saints’ Lives, Stavroula Constantinou; The literary portrait of Byzantine female saints, Nathalie Delierneux. Part III Hagiography and Society: Economy and society in Byzantine hagiography: realia and methodological questions, Michel Kaplan - Eleonora Kountoura-Galaki; The city in Byzantine hagiography, Helen G. Saradi; The hagiography of doubt and scepticism, Anthony Kaldellis. Indexes.
This Companion is the work of an international team of specialists and represents the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. It consists of two volumes and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists, Medievalists, historians of religion and theorists of the narrative. This first volume covers the authors and texts of the four distinctive periods during which Greek Byzantine hagiography developed, as well as the hagiography produced in Oriental and Slavic languages and in geographical milieux around the periphery of the empire, from Italy to Armenia. Volume II addresses questions of genres and the social and other contexts of Byzantine hagiography.
Contents: Introduction, Stephanos Efthymiadis; Part I The Periods of Byzantine Hagiography: The Life of St Antony between biography and hagiography, Tomas Hägg; Greek hagiography in late antiquity (4th–7th centuries), Stephanos Efthymiadis with Vincent Déroche (with contributions by André Binggeli and Zissis Aïnalis); Hagiography from the 'dark age' to the age of Symeon Metaphrastes (8th–10th centuries), Stephanos Efthymiadis; The hagiography of the 11th and 12th centuries, Symeon A. Paschalidis; Hagiography in late Byzantium (1204–1453), Alice-Mary Talbot. Part II The Hagiography of the Byzantine Periphery and the Christian Orient: Palestinian hagiography (4th–8th centuries), Bernard Flusin; Italo-Greek hagiography, Mario Re; Syriac hagiography, Sebastian P. Brock; Georgian hagiography, Bernadette Martin-Hisard; Armenian hagiography, S. Peter Cowe; Hagiography in Coptic, Arietta Papaconstantinou; Arabic hagiography, Mark N. Swanson; Slavic hagiography, Ingunn Lunde; Latin hagiographical literature translated into Greek, Xavier Lequeux; Indexes.
Contents: Preface; New developments in hagiography: the rediscovery of Byzantine hagiography; Part A Late Antiquity: Living in a city and living in a scetis: the dream of Eustathios the Banker (BHG Nov. Auct. 1317d); A day and ten months in the life of a lonely bachelor: the other Byzantium in Miracula S. Artemii 18 and 22; De debito bis soluto: an edifying story on the administered oath (BHG Novum Auctarium 1317n); Two Gregories and three genres: autobiography, autohagiography and hagiography. Part B The Age of Iconoclasm and Post-Iconoclasm: John of Sardis and the metaphrasis of the Passio of St. Nikephoros the Martyr (BHG 1334); Le panégyrique de S. Théophane le Confesseur par S. Théodore Stoudite (BHG 1792b). édition critique du texte intégral; The Byzantine hagiographer and his audience in the 9th and 10th centuries; Hagiographica varia (9th–10th c.); The function of the Holy Man in Asia Minor in the Middle Byzantine period; Establishing a holy lineage: Theodore the Stoudite's funerary catechism for his mother; Le miracle et les saints durant et après le second iconoclasme; Medieval Thessalonike and the Miracles of its saints: big and small demands made on exclusive rights (9th–12th centuries); D'Orient en Occident mais étranger aux deux mondes: messages et renseignements tirés de la Vie de Saint Nicolas le Pèlerin (BHL 6223); Le monastère de la Source à Constantinople et ses deux recueils de miracles: entre hagiographie et patriographie. Part C Late Byzantium: Late Byzantine collections of miracles and their implications; Addenda et corrigenda; Indexes.
Contents:
Introduction, Alicia Simpson, Niketas Choniates: the Historian and Stephanos Efthymiadis, Niketas Choniates: the Writer
Paul Magdalino, Prophecy and Divination in the History
Anthony Kaldellis, Paradox, Reversal and the Meaning of History
Stephanos Efthymiadis, Greek and Biblical Exempla in the Service of an Artful Writer
Roderick Saxey, The Homeric Metamorphoses of Andronikos I Komnenos
John Davis, The History Metaphrased: Changing Readership in the Fourteenth Century
Luciano Bossina, Niketas Choniates as a Theologian
Alicia Simpson, Narrative Images of Medieval Constantinople
Titos Papamastorakis, Interpreting the De Signis of Niketas Choniates
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Please note this article is published with Brepols Publishers as a Gold Open Access article under a Creative Commons CC 4.0: BY-NC license.
The article is also freely available on the website of Brepols Publishers: https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/book/10.1484/M.FABULAE-EB.5.131816 under this same license.