PSELLOS’ HAGIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS: RESOURCES AND NEW DIRECTIONS

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB THEOL. ORTH., Volume 66 (LXVI), No. 1, June 2021, pp. 207-216, DOI: 10.24193/subbto.2021.1.11en-US
dc.creatorFISHER, Elizabeth A.
dc.date2021-06-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T23:33:42Z
dc.descriptionResources available for Byzantine scholarship in general and for studying Psellos in particular have improved greatly in recent years. Electronic databases assist editors of texts in isolating an author’s stylistic habits and in identifying parallel and source texts, while increasingly sensitive search engines provide wide access to scholarly articles, online manuscript catalogues, online publications of texts and translations and great potential for further expansion. Teubner has published Psellos’ extensive writings in genre-defined volumes such as poetry, philosophy, forensic orations and hagiographic orations that represent modern categories of literature but do not capture Byzantine conceptualizations. Two examples illustrate this observation. (1) Although the oration on the Miracle at Blachernae is among Psellos’ hagiographic writings, it contains a brief ecphrasis of a “living icon” prominent in art-historical discussions; however, the oration chiefly focuses upon the Byzantine court system and Psellos’ suggestion for designating a miracle to resolve a vexed legal case. (2) Psellos’ Encomion on Symeon Metaphrastes resembles a saint’s vita and his hymn/canon for Metaphrastes represents a step towards honoring a “new” Byzantine saint. This process continued for 400 years. The 14th-century Hesychast movement used Metaphrastes’ writings to validate their own views and expedited his inclusion in the Synaxarion of Constantinople in the 15th Century.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbtheologiaorthodoxa/article/view/986
dc.identifier10.24193/subbto.2021.1.11
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/3213
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbtheologiaorthodoxa/article/view/986/947
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2021 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa; Volume 66, No. 1, June 2021; 207-216en-US
dc.source2065-9474
dc.source1224-0869
dc.source10.24193/subbto.2021.1
dc.subjectBlachernae Oration, Byzantine courts, Hesychasm, hagiographical resources, “new” Byzantine Saints, Mark Eugenikos, Psellos’ hagiography, Symeon Metaphrastes, Synaxarion of Constantinople, Teubner Psellos.en-US
dc.titlePSELLOS’ HAGIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS: RESOURCES AND NEW DIRECTIONSen-US
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dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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