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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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
Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60206 Specific literatures
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/19:00109205
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English Byzantine literature; monastic literature; hagiography; narratology; journey
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
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.
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MUNI/A/1269/2018, interní kód MUName: Výzkum starověkých jazyků mediteránního prostoru, jejich písemnictví a příslušných kultur, včetně jejich recepce – 2019 (Acronym: Staré jazyky a kultury)
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A
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