ByzantinoslavicaRevue internationale des études byzantines

Datum publikování: 2025

Autor: Gollo, Giulia

Autor: Sels, Lara

Abstrakt: This contribution presents ongoing research on the Life of Saint Blasios of Amorion (BHG 278), a “new-saint” vita produced at the early tenth-century monastery of Studios and most probably translated into Slavonic in that same century. A critical Greek-Slavonic edition of the Life is currently being prepared by the authors, who address the vita’s place within Middle Byzantine hagiographical literature, the available manuscript evidence, and the historical and literary contexts of its composition, translation and revision in both the Greek and Slavonic traditions. We could rely on the hagiography section of Francis Thomson’s card index – in its digital form the Thomson Index of Slavonic Translation Literature, or ThISTL – as a valuable point of departure for the exploration of the Slavonic tradition. An edition sample of chapter 2 of the Life is appended as an illustration of the ongoing text-critical and editorial work. The article concludes with observations on the text’s development, pointing to (1) the probable existence of an earlier, now lost Greek Vita A that served as a basis for the extant Slavonic translation, and (2) traces of a programmatic abridgement in the Slavonic version, apparently aimed at the removal of Constantinopolitan and Studite elements from the text. Directions for future research include further comparative analysis that also takes into account related texts, such as the Life of Nicholas the Studite (BHG 1365), as the only way forward to arrive at an understanding of the complex and layered textual history of Saint Blasios’ Vita.

Rozsah stran: s. 175–193

Status recenzování: recenzovaný článek

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0