Saints and Monks on the Move: The Case of Edifying Stories

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Saints and Monks on the Move: The Case of Edifying Stories

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta

Basic information

Original name

Saints and Monks on the Move: The Case of Edifying Stories

Authors

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Holiness on the Move. Travelling Saints in Byzantium. An International Workshop. 22 February 2019, Newcastle University, 2019

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00109205

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Byzantine literature; monastic literature; hagiography; narratology; journey

Abstract

V originále

In Byzantine edifying stories (4th to 10th centuries), travel and journey acquire various forms and play various roles within the narrative. First, we encounter the metadiegetic role of travelling in the early collections of stories composed as travelogues. This function is explicit in the History of the Monks in Egypt and John Moschus’ Spiritual Meadow and less explicit in Palladius’ Lausiakon. Second, we can identify the journey as a motif in the stories themselves, probably most prominently in the so-called ‘Daniel-Sketiotes-Dossier’ with its tension between the world of the desert and the secular world. Finally, we can also detect the “transcendent” mode of travelling, which includes the supernatural moves of people from one place to another. Such instances occur in all the collections, and most significantly in Anastasios Sinaites’ stories. The aim of this contribution will be, therefore, to explore the diegetic and metadiegetic functions of all the above-mentioned types of moving from one place to another, and to demonstrate different approaches to these motifs by different authors.

Links

MUNI/A/1269/2018, interní kód MU

Name: Výzkum starověkých jazyků mediteránního prostoru, jejich písemnictví a příslušných kultur, včetně jejich recepce – 2019 (Acronym: Staré jazyky a kultury)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Saints and Monks on the Move: The Case of Edifying Stories. In Holiness on the Move. Travelling Saints in Byzantium. An International Workshop. 22 February 2019, Newcastle University. 2019.

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KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta. Saints and Monks on the Move: The Case of Edifying Stories. In \textit{Holiness on the Move. Travelling Saints in Byzantium. An International Workshop. 22 February 2019, Newcastle University}. 2019.

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