(H/B) THE HYPOTYPOSIS OF THE MONASTERY OF THE THEOTOKOS EVERGETIS, CONSTANTINOPLE (11th-12th CENTURIES)

Παρουσίαση

This book forms part of the Evergetis Project which aims to investigate all surviving texts associated with the Monastery of the Theotokos Evergetis founded in 1049 near Constantinople. A book-length introduction sets out the historical significance of the house for the development of Byzantine monasticism and discusses its administration, liturgy and way of life.
An English translation of the Hypotyposis (the monastery's foundation document) is provided, accompanied by detailed notes. Previous scholarship on the authorship of the Hypotyposis and the evolution of the text is discussed and linguistic analysis used to suggest that traces of the original foundation document by Paul Evergetinos can be identified within it. The Hypotyposis was widely used as a model for later Byzantine and Slavonic typika and the precise relationship of these documents one to the other is demonstrated in detail.
The volume also includes prosopographical material on the known patrons of the monastery, a discussion of its library, English translations of later Greek and Latin texts referring to the monastery and a suggested reconstruction of Paul Evergetinos' original foundation document. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface
Introduction A: History
The Evergetis dossier
The history of the Evergetis monastery
The Evergetis and Byzantine monasticism in the 11th and 12th centuries
Introduction B: Administration and Life
The double hegoumenate
Monastic officers at the Evergetis
Status and possessions of the Evergetis
Liturgical practice at the Evergetis
Fasts, feasts and commemorations at the Evergetis
Reading and books at the Evergetis
Manuscript and book production: an Evergetis scriptorium
Introduction C: Text
The making of Paul's Typikon
Codex Atheniensis graecus
The final additions
Insertions in the Hypotyposis
The Hypotyposis: chapters and their titles
The Hypotyposis: an earlier structure
A Pauline Hypotyposis?
The influence of the Evergetis Hypotyposis
Exposition and hypotyposis for the life of the monks in the monastery of the most holy Theotokos Evergetis handed down by Timothy the monk and priest who became kathegoumenos after the founder of thesame monastery
Appendices
Glossary of monastic terms
Bibliography
Index