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IMC 2017: Sessions

Session 1208: Webs of Paratexts, Paratexts on the Web: Collecting and Editing Medieval Greek Paratexts

Wednesday 5 July 2017, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams, Universiteit Gent
Organiser:Sien De Groot, Afdeling Latijn en Grieks, Universiteit Gent
Moderator/Chair:Kristoffel Demoen, Afdeling Latijn en Grieks, Universiteit Gent
Paper 1208-aNew Testaments with Euthalian Apparatus in the Carolina Library, Uppsala: Contribution to a Corpus of Paratexts
(Language: English)
Barbara Crostini, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, Uppsala Universitet
Index terms: Biblical Studies, Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1208-bParaTexBib and the Systematic Analysis of the Paratexts of the Gospel in Greek Manuscripts: Methodology and Examples
(Language: English)
Patrick Andrist, Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Index terms: Biblical Studies, Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1208-cBook Epigrams in the Manuscript Tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
(Language: English)
Sien De Groot, Afdeling Latijn en Grieks, Universiteit Gent
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Theology
Abstract

This session explores modern approaches to collecting and editing so-called paratexts, with a focus on the Medieval Greek manuscripts of the Bible and of the works ascribed to Dionysius the Areopagite. The speakers in this session will discuss how they are dealing with different kinds of paratexts - mainly medieval apparatus and book epigrams - and address the methodological difficulties they have encountered so far. In addition, they will demonstrate how these paratexts shed light on the transmission, reception, and readership of the texts they accompany as well as on the history of specific manuscripts.