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Metaphrasis in Byzantine Literature
Turnhout :
Brepols Publishers, 2021.
Under the general editorship: M. Hinterberger, A. Alwis, E. Schiffer
Throughout the centuries Byzantium's ambitious authors were conscious of the significance of literary registers for the reception of their texts. They deliberately made use of stylistic elements or refrained from using certain features in order to reach their target audience. There are certain groups of texts dating from various periods where these stylistic elements can be tracked precisely by comparison of two or even more versions with their model text. Such examples of rewriting can be found particularly within genres with a broader audience appeal, namely hagiography and historiography. It is in both genres that we encounter metaphrastic processes, in terms of stylistic elaboration and in terms of stylistic simplification.
As well as stylistic reshaping, metaphrasis may also encompass the addition or removal of literary and/or thematic aspects. All these processes signify intent as well as authorial interpretation. Frequently, the ideological orientation of a text is refurbished through rewriting. Teasing out these strands for exploration helps to supply a potential wealth of information on the author (if known), cultural (social, religious, historical) context, and creative ability, as well as levels of education and literacy.
Chapters
Lukhovitskiy L., , in: Metaphrasis in Byzantine Literature.: Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2021. P. 155–174.
The author first characterizes Palaiologan versions of older hagiographies as very different in scope from the
metaphraseis of Symeon in the 10th century, as far as they did not just pretended a linguistic recasting but to adapt the story to new purposes and audiences, each author following his own standards. He tries to prove his point ...
Added: October 2, 2021
Лупарева Н. Н., Parsamov V., Ананьев Д. А. et al., М.: ООО «Паблис», 2026.
The third volume of the anthology is publishing the writtings of the eariy Russian conservative thinkers: Seraphim of Sarov, N.M. Karamzin, A.S. Shishkov, F.V. Rostopchin, S.N. Glinka, A.S. Sturdza, M.L. Magnitsky, Archimandrite Photius, V.A. Zhukovsky, P.A. Vyazemsky. ...
Added: August 24, 2026
Лупарева Н. Н., Воронеж: Новый взгляд, 2012.
The study is a first integral research of the ideologic and socio-political biography of Sergey Nikolaevich Glnka, who was the one of distinguished representative of the early Russian conservatism. ...
Added: August 24, 2026
Лупарева Н. Н., Русско-византийский вестник 2021 № 2(5) С. 166–182
The article is devoted to a problem of national identity in Russian conservative thought of the first quarter of XIX century. The provocative factor of the search of Russian self-identity was an aggressive westernism, which was translated in Russian aristocracy’s Gallomania and Alexander’s I liberal reforms conjoined with Napoleonic wars and European reaction on the ...
Added: August 24, 2026
Лупарева Н. Н., Вопросы истории 2019 № 5 С. 22–37
The publication is devoted to ideological and political biografy of Sergey Nikolaevich Glinka - a famous Russian conservativeof the first quater of XIX century. Glinka was a literateur, political writer, publisher of the "Russian messenger" magazine, author of the voluminous "Russian history" fnd one of the organizer of Moscow militia. In his writings and socio-political activity ...
Added: August 24, 2026
Лупарева Н. Н., Русско-византийский вестник 2019 № 1 С. 346–368
The article is devoted to “The Russian Messenger”, published by Sergey Nikolayevich Glinka in 1808-1824. The magazine was inspired by presentiment of the great war between Russia and France and analyzing the basic questions of Russian conservative thought of the first quarter of 19th century — criticism of Gallomania, importance of Russian historical tradition and ...
Added: August 24, 2026
Лупарева Н. Н., Русско-византийский вестник 2018 № 1 С. 113–119
The article is devoted to the aspect of the views of Sergei Nikolayevich Glinka — a well known social and political figure, publisher and publicist, representative of the conservative thought of the first quarter of the 19th century — which had not previously been studied in domestic and foreign historiography, and especially to his views ...
Added: August 24, 2026
Лупарева Н. Н., Христианское чтение 2018 № 5 С. 175–186
The article is devoted to the “Russian Messenger” of Sergey Nikolayevich Glinka. The magazine was created in the period of Napoleonic wars for the purpose of preparing Russian society to political-military and socio-cultural fight with France. Seeing that France and French culture were associated with revolution, “Russian Messenger” made actual the main questions of Russian ...
Added: August 24, 2026
Лупарева Н. Н., Христианское чтение 2017 № 2 С. 276–287
In the present article, the author considers the role of Orthodoxy in the conception of social and political organization created by Sergey Glinka, a well-known representative of the conservative political wing during the reign of Alexander I, publisher of the patriotic journal Russian Messenger, and author the famed Russian History at the beginning of the ...
Added: August 24, 2026
Lukhovitskiy L., Byzantinoslavica 2025 Vol. 83 No. 1-2 P. 108–122
The academic vocabulary used to describe the Iconoclastic Controversy in Byzantium includes both authentic Middle Greek lexemes and artificial terms coined in 16th–17th-century Western Europe, developed in the context of Reformation theological debates. The former category is largely represented by terms referring to the so-called Iconoclasts (εἰκονομάχοι, εἰκονοκλάσται, εἰκονοκαῦ[σ]ται), while the latter includes designations for ...
Added: May 15, 2025
Lukhovitskiy L., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2025 Т. 29 № 1 С. 1059–1079
This article examines the historical semantics of the post-classical Greek word χριστιανοκατήγορος (literally, “an accuser of Christians”). While its existence in the early Byzantine period is doubtful — there is only one isolated occurrence, which had no impact on later tradition and may even be a 10th-century correction — after the Second Council of Nicaea ...
Added: April 25, 2025
Lukhovitskiy L., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2025 Vol. 21 No. 1 P. 342–359
A profession of faith preserved in Princeton MS 180 (13th century, 2nd half) is wrongly indexed in the catalogue of Greek manuscripts at Princeton and the database Pinakes as an unpublished text by Germanos I, patriarch of Constantinople (715–730). Upon closer examination, it appears to be a later compilation that draws upon at least three ...
Added: April 25, 2025
Lukhovitskiy L., , in: The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium.: Routledge, 2025. Ch. 4.3 P. 328–344.
The chapter provides a reassessment of the two interpretative models used for the analysis of Palaeologan hagiography, the ‘old saints’ paradigm and the ‘metaphrasis’ paradigm. After a concise description of the sources, the argument develops in three steps. Firstly, a distinction is drawn between the two dichotomies—‘old’ vs ‘new’ saints and ‘rewritings’ vs ‘original compositions’. ...
Added: April 11, 2025
Routledge, 2025.
The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium presents an overview of the various rewriting processes involved in the production of Byzantine literature. Due to the lack of recent systematic research on the totality of Byzantine literature, which embraces a long millennium of texts, the fluid concept of ‘rewriting’, here studied for the first time in all ...
Added: April 11, 2025
Lukhovitskiy L., Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 2025 Vol. 49 No. 2 P. 205–222
The controversy over the confiscation of church vessels during the reign of Alexios I is referred to as ‘Komnenian Iconoclasm.’ However, its salient feature is the reluctance of both parties to accuse their opponents of Iconoclasm. Alexios’ supporters and adversaries mastered the art of periphrasis and allusion, so that the shadow of Iconoclasm loomed over ...
Added: November 4, 2024
Lukhovitskiy L., Travaux et Memoires 2023 Vol. 27 P. 337–353
Scholars of Byzantine Iconoclasm treat the heresiological text entitled On councils and heresies and attributed to Germanos of Constantinople with caution, because its anti-iconoclastic chapters are considered to be later additions. Whereas the arguments in favor of the interpolation theory are inconclusive, any thorough discussion of the text’s stratigraphy, authorship, and date must be preceded ...
Added: October 4, 2023
Lukhovitskiy, Lev, Zharkaya, Varvara, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 2023 Vol. 116 No. 3 P. 813–836
The Brief ekphrasis of the Holy Land ascribed to a certain Ioannes Phokas is a very unusual piece of literature because, unlike other ekphraseis, it deals with a journey. Since the Byzantines did not develop universally accepted rules for writing about pilgrimages, Phokas’ text (like any other rare example of what might be called Byzantine ...
Added: July 22, 2023
Ivanov S. A., Palaeoslavica 2022 Т. 30 № 1-2 С. 84–91
В статье на лексикографическом материале доказывается, что автором "Мартирия" был Феофилакт, аржиепископ Охридский ...
Added: February 15, 2023
Lukhovitskiy L., Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Theologia orthodoxa 2022 Vol. 67 No. 2 P. 185–199
Mid-fourteenth-century Byzantine sources bear witness to an increased interest in Iconoclasm among the theologians involved in the Hesychast Controversy. The writings of the defenders of icon veneration were mined for authoritative quotations and the history of Iconoclasm became a repository of historical role models. This article is comprised of two sections. The first part expands ...
Added: November 2, 2022
Lukhovitskiy L., СПб.: Дмитрий Буланин, 2023.
В монографии прослеживается эволюция исторической памяти об иконоборческих спорах VIII—IX вв. в литературе средне- и поздне-византийского периода. В фокусе внимания автора находятся, с одной стороны, моменты актуализации обвинений в иконоборчестве в церковно-политических конфликтах эпохи Алексея I Комнина (1081—1118 гг.), Лионской унии (1274 г.) и исихастских споров (середина XIV в.), а с другой — художественные образы ...
Added: September 20, 2022
Lukhovitskiy L., Античная древность и средние века 2022 Т. 50 С. 283–311
The paper focuses on the hagiographical rewriting of the Palaeologan period. After outlining the corpus of relevant texts, I discuss the two paradigms that currently permeate Byzantine studies, the “old saints” paradigm and the “metaphrasis” paradigm. Both approaches, despite their indisputable heuristic value, do not take into consideration all aspects of hagiographical rewriting of the ...
Added: August 17, 2022
Abingdon: Routledge, 2023.
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 ...
Added: July 12, 2022