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Recollection, Reevaluation, Distortion: Symeon Metaphrastes' Narrative Techniques in Retelling the History of Iconoclasm
Byzantinische Zeitschrift. 2016. Vol. 109. No. 2. P. 785–808.
Four Metaphrastic Lives dealing with the saints of the iconoclast epoch are consideredalongside their source-texts: the Lives of Ioannikios the Great (BHG 937), Stephen the Younger (BHG 1667), Andrew ‘en Krisei’ (BHG 112), and Theodoros Graptos (BHG 1746). A discussionof the methodological framework and a brief introduction to the texts and their sources arefollowed by a presentation of the metaphrastic shifts: attenuation of polemical devices,compression of historical time, psychologization, new aspects of Kaiserkritik, thematicelaboration of theological issues. The conclusion argues that it were non-historical literary goalsthat stood behind the recodification of the cultural memory of the iconoclast period in theMetaphrastic Menologion. Aiming to set the original story free from redundant elements andretell it in a more clear way Symeon Metaphrastes’ team demythologized the iconoclastemperors, interiorized the clash between iconoclasts and iconophiles, and shifted the focus fromheresiological issues to emotions and inner development of the saint.
Research target:
Philology and Linguistics
History and Archeology
Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Studies
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English
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