Guglielmo Cavallo Livres

Through a series of detailed composite portraits, an international collection of contributors have created in this volume a clear vision of the Byzantines and their social world.

The handbook illustrates 94 Greek literary papyrus texts from Egypt and Herculaneum and documents the different types of scripts used in copying works of Greek literature, from the earliest surviving bookrolls written in the 4th century BC up to the first century AD. The aim is twofold: (1) to establish their relative (and, wherever possible, absolute) chronological sequence, and (2) to distinguish and characterize their stylistic features. Specimens of different types of scripts (“hands”) that appear stylistically related have been grouped together. In their joint introduction, the authors summarize the main results of their investigation and attempt to identify the social and cultural factors that have determined the development of different types of Greek literary scripts during the Hellenistic and Augustan era. The book also contains a comprehensive bibliography and indices. Hellenistic Bookhands is a tool for scholars and students of Classics, Greek papyrology, palaeography, and the transmission of Classical Greek literature.

Reliquienauthentiken zählen zu den kleinen, unscheinbaren, aber ungemein aussagekräftigen Schriftzeugnissen des Frühmittelalters. Die Beschriftung von Reliquien führt bis in die älteste Schriftlichkeit der Konvente und illustriert die Austauschphänomene des Heiligen` seit der Spätantike. Der Band versammelt die Beiträge der ersten internationalen Fachtagung zu den Reliquienauthentiken, die 2017 in Mainz stattfand. Authentiken sind die an den Reliquien zu ihrer Identifikation angebrachten kleinen Zertifikate. Diese Etiketten haben sich oft auch dann erhalten, wenn die sonstige Überlieferung der Kirchen und Klöster verloren gegangen ist. Sie sind deswegen trotz ihrer Knappheit einzigartige Zeugnisse von Schrift, Sprache und Heiligenverehrung in früher Zeit und für die Kulturgeschichte eine Quelle ersten Ranges. Forschung und Tagung gehen auf den Heidelberger Sonderforschungsbereich 933 'Materiale Textkulturen' zurück. Inhaltsverzeichnis https://download.schnell-und-steiner.de/ihv/9783795433017_inhaltsverzeichnis.pdf

Manuscripts from the Byzantine era hand down lists of outstanding Greek authors or canons in the various literary and scientific-philosophical genres, but there has been a lack of research into their nature, chronology, origin, formation and use. The volume Παραδείγματα, the term used in rhetorical texts to designate the canons, provides a new critical edition of these lists as a basis for the topics discussed. One of the lists, hitherto thought to be unitary, turns out to be composed of two originally independent and diachronic lists, later joined into one: an older one, dating back at least in part to Alexandrian philology, and another possibly from the 5th-6th century AD with additions up to the 9th, formed between Alexandria and Constantinople. A later list of canons, referable to the 13th-14th centuries, proves to be different from the previous ones, reflecting all-Byzantine instances partly intrinsic to Byzantine orthodoxy since it includes Church Fathers and theologians, partly resulting from cultural turning points of the 11th-12th centuries, partly inspired by the Second Sophistic. The groups and authors of each list were then examined, recalling their geo-historical context, activity, production and textual tradition, and their place in Serorian scholarship. Finally, the lists were compared with the canons transposed or reformulated by Byzantine scholars and scholars. The volume may prove useful to those concerned with ancient literary and scientific-philosophical canons, the history of scholarship, the use of the classics and the Church Fathers in Byzantium.