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

Descrizione del progetto

Il ruolo degli scritti ad opera dei «padri della Chiesa» nella formazione del canone letterario bizantino

Come fu plasmato dalle comunità monastiche cristiane multilingue della prima Palestina islamica e dell’antico Sinai (nel periodo compreso tra il VII e l’XI secolo d.C.) il canone letterario bizantino delle opere ascetiche? Per rispondere a questo interrogativo, il progetto MonasByz, finanziato dall’UE, esplorerà il modo in cui monaci e ascetici medievali vissuti nell’area del Mediterraneo fecero affidamento sugli scritti dei «padri della Chiesa», attivi tra il IV e il VII secolo d.C. MonasByz si propone di scoprire le condizioni temporali e spaziali in cui ebbe luogo il passaggio da un’autorialità di tipo personale a una di tipo letterario, nonché la misura con cui tale transizione si espresse.

Obiettivo

"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."

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

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Meccanismo di finanziamento

MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)

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Coordinatore

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 186 167,04
Indirizzo
UNIVERSITATSRING 1
1010 Wien
Austria
Regione
Ostösterreich Wien Wien
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 186 167,04