Ideologie et ceremonial dans l'epistolographie byzantine. Textes du Xe siecle analyses et commentes

Karlsson, Gustav

doi:10.2307/1582497

Vigiliae Christianae

1968

DOI: 10.2307/1582497

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Ideologie et ceremonial dans l'epistolographie byzantine. Textes du Xe siecle analyses et commentes

Gustav Karlsson¹

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Redeeming Byzantine Epistolography

Hatlie¹

1996

Byz. mod. Greek stud.

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The Russian scholar V.A. Smetanin, whose work during the 1970s and 1980s dealt exclusively with Byzantine epistolography, would clearly like to think of himself as an 'epistolologist', occupied in the specialised field of Byzantine 'epistolology'. Epistolology is an auxiliary discipline within history, according to Smetanin, which encompasses both theoretical and practical concerns. Its theoretical interests are to work out methods for, (a 1) drawing boundaries between letters and other historical documents, (b 1) dating letters on the basis of their epistolological markings (epistolologicheskich priznakov), and (c 1) understanding the introduction and assimilation of correspondence into learned discourse. On its practical side, epistolology aims to solve problems of, (a 2) the immediate components (nepocredstvennoe vychlenenie) of correspondence, (b 2) its architectonics, and finally (c 2), the introduction and assimilation of the epistolographic legacy into learned discourse. Smetanin opens a middle road within epistolology, too, in effect a series of 'steps' (stupenich) which converge on both theory and practice. Thus the so-called (moxcbpiaiq (a 3) takes in the question of the distinguishing features of epistolography, npoeXsvoiq (b 3) works out its manner or conduct and etpapfioaig (c 3) studies its function or use. 1 When all is said and done, Smetanin suggests, epistolology will *My thanks to Dumbarton Oaks for awarding me a Summer Fellowship to complete research for this article, and to Margaret Mullett for reading it in an earlier draft. Needless to say, all mistakes are my own.

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Redeeming Byzantine Epistolography

Hatlie¹

1996

Byz. mod. Greek stud.

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