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Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography explores the literary, religious, and social functions of monastic mobility in Byzantine hagiography, touching on aspects of space, narrative, and identity. The ten chapters included in this volume highlight the multifaceted and rich nature of travel narratives, exploring topics such as authorship and audience, narrative structure and function, identity-making and practicalities of and discourse on travel. In terms of geographical span, the case studies cover Constantinople and its hinterland, Asia Minor, mainland Greece, Trebizond, the Balkans, and southern Italy and range chronologically from the end of the sixth to the fourteenth century.
The contributions offer novel insights and perspectives on the importance of mobility in the literary construction of holiness in the Byzantine world and the wider medieval Mediterranean, the spatial dimension of sacred mobility, and the ways in which mobility is employed in the narrative construction of hagiographical texts. As such, the volume joins the burgeoning research on sacred mobilities and will interest students and scholars of Byzantine and medieval literature, religion, and history, as well as a wider readership with an interest in the study of space and mobility.
Mihail Mitrea is a Lecturer in Byzantine history at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and a senior researcher in Byzantine philology at the Institute for South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. He holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Edinburgh (2018). His research was funded by the European Commission (MSCA – IF), Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. He is currently an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cologne. His research was published in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, and Travaux et Mémoires. His research interests include hagiography, epistolography, and prayers in late Byzantium, manuscript studies, and textual criticism.
Preface This volume grew out of the conference Holiness on the Move: Travelling Saints in Byzantium, organised at Newcastle University in 2019, within the framework of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie research project Sacred Landscapes in Late Byzantium (grant agreement no. 752292), funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.1 I would like to express my gratitude to the contributors to this volume, who invested their time and expertise in the chapters gathered here. Without their full commitment, support, and patience, this volume would not have become reality. At Routledge, I am indebted to our editor, Michael Greenwood, and his editorial assistant, Louis Nicholson-Pallet, for their support and effciency in the production of the volume.
I am also grateful to the editorial board at Routledge and the anonymous reviewers for their insightful and constructive suggestions which have signifcantly improved the quality of the fnal manuscript. At Newcastle University, I am grateful to Professor Sam Turner for his mentorship, Dr Mark Jackson for valuable advice, Dr Ruth Connolly for encouragement, and Elizabeth Bell and Claire Holden for administrative support in the organisation of the conference.
The conference received additional fnancial support from the part of the Ideas and Beliefs research strand in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, and the Medieval and Early Modern Studies research group at Newcastle University, as well as the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Studies at the University of London. I thank them for their generosity. I am also indebted to Leilani Briel for proofreading some of the chapters and Alexandru Sabo for professionally drawing the fgures in Mircea Duluș’ and Margaret Mullett’s contributions. Finally, I am grateful to the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection for providing the copyright for the frontispiece image showing Abraham’s journey to Canaan from the Basilica di San Marco in Venice.
On a personal note, I owe an immense debt of gratitude to my wife, ElenaCristina Mitrea, for her invaluable support both during the conference and throughout the editing process. I dedicate this volume to our daughter, Maria-Ziana.
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