Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium

Juan Signes Codoñer is Professor of Greek at Complutense University (Spain). His research interests include Byzantine historiography, the Greek grammatical tradition, Byzantine law, and the context of Homeric poetry. He is currently serving as President of the Spanish Association of Byzantine Studies (since 2017) and President of the research cluster Bósforo (Complutense University, since 2021).Martin Hinterberger is Professor of Byzantine Literature at the University of Cyprus. His research interests include Byzantine biography and hagiography, medieval Greek as a literary language, Byzantine vernacular literature, Byzantine emotions, and editions of historiographical texts.Inmaculada Pérez Martín is Research Professor at the Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas (CSIC, Spain). Her interests include Greek palaeography, the transmission of Ancient Greek texts, Komnenian and Palaiologan scholars, and Byzantine geography. She led the digitization of the Greek manuscripts of El Escorial DIGITESC project and is currently working on the political and public use of writing in the Byzantine world.

• Introduction0. Preliminary issues0.1. Levels of GreekMartin Hinterberger and Juan Signes Codoñer0.2. Vocabulary for rewriting in ByzantiumJuan Signes Codoñer0.3. Tracing the Byzantine authors’ understanding of literary imitationElisabeth Schiffer0.4. Σχέδη, dossiers, συλλογαί, compilations, excerptaFilippo Ronconi0.5. “Seeds for our tongue’s and our intellect’s training”: Rewriting and Textual TransmissionInmaculada Pérez Martín0.6. Collective Rewriting from Late Antiquity to the Palaiologan Period: An Attempt to Trace Collaboration in Literary, Scientific Projects and Manuscript ProductionAndras Németh1. REWRITING OR INVENTING THE PAST?: Historiography and novel 1.1. The unending (re)writing of historyJuan Signes Codoñer1.2. Rewriting in Historiography: the evidence of the ProemsEirene Kiapidou1.3. Late metaphraseis of Byzantine historiographical textsMartin Hinterberger1.4. Reworking, Rewriting, and Mouvance in Late-Byzantine Vernacular LiteratureCarolina Cupane and Martin Hinterberger2. THE PLACES OF PERSUASION: Oratory and rhetoric2.1. Rewriting Homilies and Homilies RewritingPetros Tsagkaropoulos2.2. The rhetoric of rewriting and the rewriting of rhetoric in John TzetzesAglae Pizzone2.3. Rewriting letters in ByzantiumMichael Grünbart3. THE CHANGING MUSES: poetry 3.1. The Reuse of Ancient Epigram in Byzantine Poetry. An OverviewUgo Mondini3.2. Prosifying classical versesDavid Pérez Moro3.3. Memory and Rewriting in Schedography: The Cases of Fables and NarrativesNikos Zagklas4. SELLING PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOUR: Hagiography 4.1. Same Saints, Different Garments: Hagiographic rewriting before Symeon MetaphrastesDaria Resh4.2. Hagiography of the Macedonian period and Symeon Metaphrastes Christian Høgel4.3. Hagiography of the Palaiologan periodLev Lukhovitskiy5. SHARING TECHNICAL COMPETENCE: Law, medicine and science5.1. Rewriting Byzantine lawMarios Tantalos5.2. The process of re-writing in the production of acts in the Byzantine worldRaúl Estangüi5.3. Rewriting in Byzantine Medical LiteratureIsabel Grimm-Stadelmann5.4. Rewriting pharmacological treatisesMónica Durán5.5. Rewriting Mathematical and Astronomical TreatisesFabio Acerbi5.6. Rewriting Ancient GeographyPaula Caballero6. THE QUEST OF KNOWLEDGE: Philosophy and theology 6.1. Rewriting Techniques in Byzantine Philosophical CommentariesMichele Trizio6.2. The last dogmatic conundrum: transmitting and innovating patristic theology on the Holy SpiritAlessandra Bucossi