The Saint as Food, the Torture as Medicine: Some Aspects of Christopher of Mytilene’s Imagery in his Dodecasyllabic Calendar and its South Slavonic Translations

Dikova, Ekaterina Pantcheva

dc.contributor.author	Dikova, Ekaterina Pantcheva
dc.date.accessioned	2022-04-11T07:57:12Z
dc.date.available	2022-04-11T07:57:12Z
dc.date.issued	2021-12-30
dc.identifier.issn	2084-140X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41519
dc.description.abstract	Christopher of Mytilene, a secular poet of the early 11th century, had embarked on a difficult task when creating his dodecasyllabic Christian Calendar, that is two-verse storytelling about saints and, mainly, about the tortures they died of. He accomplished it more than successfully, besides in quite a vivid and spectacular way, by means of various poetic and rhetorical techniques. Food and medicine imagery was just a minute aspect of his mastery, yet a powerful one, acquiring not only artistic and rhetorical, but also mnemonic functions. the poet used such images – just as he used e.g. Biblical allusions – as a way to convey a variety of details in succinct messages; the information thus compressed is unfolded by means of associations in the mind of the perceiver. These associations are related not only to Christianity, but also to many other aspects of the Byzantine cultured life, including certain elements from Antiquity. I will try to reveal this mechanism and to show the attempts of the 14th-century South Slavonic translators to render it as well as their decisions in cases of realia unknown to their audience. For this purpose, I have selected certain Greek verse memories (as given in the editions of Eustratiadis and Cresci & Skomorochova Venturini) from the Verse Synaxarion for the summer half of the year together with their two South-Slavonic correspondences of the 14th century (according to the two respective early manuscripts of the Slavonic Verse Prolog), again only for the months from March to August.	en
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	pl
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe	en
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subject	medieval Slavonic translations of Byzantine poetry	en
dc.subject	Christophoros Mitylenaios’ Orthodox iambic calendar	en
dc.subject	verse memories of martyrs	en
dc.subject	rhetorical figures	en
dc.title	The Saint as Food, the Torture as Medicine: Some Aspects of Christopher of Mytilene’s Imagery in his Dodecasyllabic Calendar and its South Slavonic Translations	en
dc.type	Article
dc.page.number	165-176
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Institute of Balkan Studies and Center of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2449-8378
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	e.dikova@balkanstudies.bg
dc.identifier.doi	10.18778/2084-140X.11.08
dc.relation.volume	11

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