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Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography
Abingdon :
Routledge, 2023.
Under the general editorship: M. Mihail
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 and function, identity-making and practicalities of and discourse on travel. In terms of geographical span, the case studies cover Constantinople and its hinterland, Asia Minor, mainland Greece, Trebizond, the Balkans, and southern Italy, and range chronologically from the end of the sixth to the fourteenth century.
The contributions offer novel insights and perspectives on the importance of mobility in the literary construction of holiness in the Byzantine world and the wider medieval Mediterranean, the spatial dimension of sacred mobility, and the ways in which mobility is employed in the narrative construction of hagiographical texts. As such, the volume joins the burgeoning research on sacred mobilities and will interest students and scholars of Byzantine and medieval literature, religion, and history, as well as a wider readership with an interest in the study of space and mobility.
Chapters
Lukhovitskiy L., , in: Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography.: Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Ch. 5 P. 105–125.
The chapter provides a spatial reading of the two hagiographies of John of Damascus as a liminal figure between the Roman Empire and the Arab East: the Oration by the Palaiologan hagiographer Constantine Akropolites and its immediate source, the Jerusalem Life composed by John III, Patriarch of Antioch, at the turn of the eleventh century. ...
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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’. ...
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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 ...
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Lukhovitskiy L., СПб.: Дмитрий Буланин, 2023.
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Lukhovitskiy L., Античная древность и средние века 2022 Т. 50 С. 283–311
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Added: August 17, 2022
Lukhovitskiy L., , in: Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography.: Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Ch. 5 P. 105–125.
The chapter provides a spatial reading of the two hagiographies of John of Damascus as a liminal figure between the Roman Empire and the Arab East: the Oration by the Palaiologan hagiographer Constantine Akropolites and its immediate source, the Jerusalem Life composed by John III, Patriarch of Antioch, at the turn of the eleventh century. ...
Added: July 12, 2022
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The paper focuses on the common hagiographical dossier of st. Michael the Synkellos and the Graptoi brothers, confessors of the 2nd period of the iconoclast controversy in Byzantium (AD 815–843). The dossier has the following structure: the anonymous 9th century Life of st. Michael, the Metaphrastic Life of the Graptoi Brothers (10th century), the Life ...
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Lukhovitskiy L., , in: Byzantine Hagiography: Texts, Themes & Projects.: Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2018. P. 341–363.
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