BYZANTINE HISTORY AND LITERATURE

Byzantine Philology is a course of the "Philology, literatures and history of antiquity" and the "Archaeology" Master's degree in "Science of antiquity: literatures, history and archaeology". The course is also offered as an exam to complement the master's degree course in "History from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age".

The students will have acquired:
- knowledge of the content and method of Byzantine literature and philology;
- a knowledge of the Byzantine literary and cultural world in its different periods;
- competence in the critical study of Byzantine texts.

Knowledge of classical Greek, and a preparation, at least elementary, of Greek palaeography is also recommended.

The course is dedicated to the edition of the First Epustula invectiva by Euthymius of the Peribleptos monastery in Constantinople (11th century).
The course presents studies on Euthymius and his works, the previous edition and the manuscript.
Topics:
1. Description of the manuscript;
2. Constitution of the Greek text;
3. Translation and commentary.

A presentation of the research and bibliography on Euthymius will be given at the beginning of the course. It would be useful to read A. Rigo, Les premières sources byzantines sur le bogomilisme et les oeuvres contre les phoundagiagites d'Euthyme de la Péribleptos , in Европейският югоизток през втората половина на Х – началото на ХІ век, История и култура, Sofia, 2015, p. 528-551.
The edition of G. Ficker, Die Phundagiagiten. Ein Beitrag zur Ketzergeschichte des byzantinischen Mittelalters, Leipzig 1908 and a copy of the manuscript will be made available to students at the beginning of the course.
Other materials at https://moodle.unive.it/

Oral exam 70% + Work on texts during lessons 30%.
Non-attending students are advised to contact the professor for a different program.

oral

28-30L: mastery of the topics covered; exploitation of appropriate technical terminology;
26-27: good knowledge of the topics covered; familiarity with technical terminology;
24-25: knowledge of the topics covered is not always in-depth; oral presentation with incorrect use of technical terminology;
22-23: often superficial knowledge of the topics covered; oral presentation unclear
and lacking;
18-21: at times incomplete knowledge of the topics covered; confused oral presentation.

Lectures. The presence (constant) for the work on the texts is strongly recommended.

Italian