Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products

by Stavroula Constantinou

Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products represents a first and authoritative discussion of rewriting in Byzantium. It brings together a rich variety of articles that treat the topic of hagiographical rewriting from various angles.The contributors discuss and comment on different kinds of texts in Greek and other languages, including Apophthegmata Patrum, Passions, Saints' Lives, Enkomia, Miracle...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004392173
• ISBN13: 9789004392175
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 408 Pages