‎Caroline Mac (ed)‎
‎Organising a Literary Corpus in the Middle Ages. The Corpus Nazianzenum and the Corpus Dionysiacum‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 700 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 b/w, 15 col., 12 tables b/w., Language(s):English, French, German. ISBN 9782503610962.‎

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‎Summary Through the word corpus, the metaphor of the body is applied to a collection of works by the same author that are transmitted together. These works not only share the same skin, the manuscript, but also function organically thanks to a complex system of paracontents. It is possible to see this system at work in the case of only a very few medieval authors throughout history, cultures and languages; the Corpus Nazianzenum and the Corpus Dionysiacum are such instances. Both Gregory of Nazianzus and Dionysius the Areopagite are super-authors, who forged their own literary identity as much as they shaped the body of their writings. This sets both corpora apart from other collections of patristic works. They are also exceptional because of the large scale and enduring character of their cultural impact in the different cultures in which the corpora were translated, commented and annotated. By confronting these two exceptional cases, it is possible to gain some new light on the intellectual and book-historical aspects of literary creation and reception in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1. Caroline Mac : Living Bodies of Texts 2. Ekkehard M hlenberg: Das Akademievorhaben ?Dionysius Areopagita? in G ttingen 3. Bernard Coulie: Le Centre d' tudes sur Gr goire de Nazianze Louvain-la-Neuve I. Origins and Evolutions of the Corpora 1. Margherita Matera: Le palimpseste Parisinus graecus 1330, le plus ancien t moin manuscrit du Corpus Dionysiacum 2. Caroline Mac : l ments d'une histoire ancienne de la tradition des discours de Gr goire de Nazianze: les variantes arm no-latines du discours 38 3. Alessandro Capone: Alle origini delle antiche versioni latine delle Orazioni di Gregorio di Nazianzo 4. V ronique Somers: Sur les traces d'une dition byzantine des Discours de Gr goire de Nazianze ? 5. Pierre-Marie Picard: Les divisions mauristes des ?uvres po tiques de Gr goire de Nazianze, des sous-corpus volutifs interroger 6. Jost Gippert: Ephrem the Minor's Preface Revisited 7. Maia Matchavariani: Books for Bibliophiles: Two Ancient Collections of the Georgian Translations of Gregory of Nazianzus' Works - NCM S-1696 and NCM A-87 II. Scholia and Commentaries 1. Chiara Faraggiana: Geh ren ???????????, ?????????????, ??????????? zum literarischen oder zum kodikologischen Vokabular? berlegungen ber die sp tantike Exegese als Paratext 2. Joseph Church: The Ancient Lexica to the Corpus Dionysiacum 3. Thomas Schmidt: Les Commentaires de Basile le Minime aux Discours de Gr goire de Nazianze: le cas particulier du Discours 38 4. Ga lle Rioual: Basile le Minime, commentateur de quel texte de Gr goire de Nazianze? 5. Jonathan Loopstra: Reading the Corpus Nazianzenum in Syriac by Way of the Margins 6. Emiliano Fiori: School and Scholia in the Syriac Miaphysite Tradition: The Syriacisation of Dionysius the Areopagite as a Collective Exegetical Effort 7. Sergio La Porta: Reading the Areopagite: The Armenian Scholia on the Corpus Dionysiacum and Their Use in the Medieval School Curriculum 8. Thamar Otkhmezuri: The Corpus Nazianzenum and the Corpus Dionysiacum in the Georgian Literary Tradition‎