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The Making of the Byzantine Ascetical Canon: Monastic Networks, Literacy and Religious Authority in Palestine and Sinai (7th-11th centuries)

Description du projet

Le rôle des écrits des «premiers Pères» dans la formation du canon littéraire byzantin

Comment les communautés monastiques chrétiennes multilingues de la Palestine islamique primitive et du Sinaï (VIIe–XIe siècles de notre ère) ont-elles façonné le canon littéraire byzantin des œuvres ascétiques? Pour répondre à cette question, le projet MonasByz, financé par l’UE, explorera la manière dont les moines et les ascètes médiévaux de toute la Méditerranée se sont appuyés sur les écrits des «premiers Pères», qui étaient actifs du IVe au VIIe siècle. MonasByz vise à déterminer les conditions temporelles et spatiales dans lesquelles s’est opéré le passage d’une autorité de type personnel à une autorité de type littéraire et quelle a été son ampleur.

Objectif

"This research project will investigate the role played by the multilingual Christian monastic communities of Early Islamic Palestine and Sinai (7th-11th centuries CE) in the formation of the Byzantine literary canon of ascetic works. Throughout the Medieval period, Byzantine monks and ascetics across the Mediterranean relied as their main source of authority on the writings of the ""early fathers"", i.e. a series of ascetic authors who were active between ca. the 4th-7th centuries CE. The increasing spiritual authority invested in ascetic books and texts (the ""classics"") during the Byzantine period stands in stark opposition to the living examples of charismatic holy men and women who dominated Late Antique Christian discourses on asceticism. Although this shift from a personal to a literary type of authority had far-reaching consequences for the history of Byzantine Christianity, key questions with regard to the complex processes behind it never received an adequate treatment in scholarship: Where and when did the change take place and what was its scope? How did a ""canon"" of ascetic literature emerge, who carried out the selection of authors and works, and how was it disseminated? Employing innovative research methods from the fields of social and intellectual history, philology, manuscript studies and Digital Humanities, MonasByz argues that the fundamental shift occurred in Palestine and Egypt (Sinai) during the early Islamic period and that the monasteries of Mar Saba and St Catherine's played a pivotal role in this development. Through a systematic survey of the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic ascetic manuscripts produced in these centers between the 7th and 11th centuries, the project will identify the actors and resources involved in the production of books and reconstruct the local and supra-regional monastic networks, in order to trace the formation of a new way of disseminating spiritual authority via texts, which would prevail in the Byzantine period."

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Coordinateur

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 186 167,04
Coût total
€ 186 167,04