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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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1950s, the scholarly attention this fragment received, its eventual disappearance from Qumran
studies after the official ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Ivanov S. A., Palaeoslavica 2022 Т. 30 № 1-2 С. 84–91
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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 ...
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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
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