An eleventh-century liturgical homiliary : the Evergetis Katechetikon
<p>The Katechetikon, a liturgical homiliary composed by Paul (†1054) <i>higoumenos</i> and founder, in 1048-49, of the monastery of the Theotokos Evergetis near Constantinople, is an unpublished collection of monastic catecheses dating to the middle of the eleventh century.</p&g...
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| description | <p>The Katechetikon, a liturgical homiliary composed by Paul (†1054) <i>higoumenos</i> and founder, in 1048-49, of the monastery of the Theotokos Evergetis near Constantinople, is an unpublished collection of monastic catecheses dating to the middle of the eleventh century.</p>
<p>The collection is divided in two tomes. The first part is extant in two manuscripts, <i>Marcianus graecus</i> App. II. 40 and <i>Atheniensis graecus</i> 215, probably dating around the end of the eleventh or the beginning of the twelfth century. The second part is extant in codex Athos, <i>Esphigmenou</i> 45, dated by its colophon to 1108 and used at the monastery of Christ Philanthropos in Constantinople. Single catecheses are also preserved in the fragments of Athos, <i>Vatopedi</i> 1216, and among the catecheses of Theodore Studite in <i>Atheniensis graecus</i> 295, <i>Serdicensis graecus</i> Dujcev 222 and in <i>Sinaiticus graecus</i> 482. Codex Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. <i>Cromwell</i> 22, signed by the hieromonachos Mark and dated 1315, bears the only explicit attribution of the catecheses to Paul of Evergetis. In it, the catecheses are adapted for a feminine audience.</p>
<p>The <i>Katechetikon</i> provides liturgical readings for the morning office for each day of the year and functions according to the movable cycle of the liturgical year dependent on Easter, just as a Gospel Lectionary. Texts are selected from the following authors: Theodore Studite, Maximos Confessor, Pseudo-Makarios, Dorotheos of Gaza, Ephrem, Mark the Monk and Pseudo-Mark (Marcian), Neilos/Evagrios, John of Karpathos, Diadochos of Photike. The sources are edited with varying degrees of alteration. The <i>Apophthegmata Patrum</i> and passages from John Klimakos' <i>Ladder</i> are also quoted. In addition, the sources of forty-two texts remain unidentified.</p>
<p>The purpose of the catecheses is to exhort the monks to virtue and assist them through difficulties in their monastic experience, thereby revealing the monastic ideals of the Evergetis founder.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:3de159bb-c1a5-471f-adab-661f05c01e172024-12-07T15:55:08ZAn eleventh-century liturgical homiliary : the Evergetis KatechetikonThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:3de159bb-c1a5-471f-adab-661f05c01e17Paul, of Evergetis, active 11th century. KatechetikonEnglishHyrax Deposit1998Crostini, B<p>The Katechetikon, a liturgical homiliary composed by Paul (†1054) <i>higoumenos</i> and founder, in 1048-49, of the monastery of the Theotokos Evergetis near Constantinople, is an unpublished collection of monastic catecheses dating to the middle of the eleventh century.</p> <p>The collection is divided in two tomes. The first part is extant in two manuscripts, <i>Marcianus graecus</i> App. II. 40 and <i>Atheniensis graecus</i> 215, probably dating around the end of the eleventh or the beginning of the twelfth century. The second part is extant in codex Athos, <i>Esphigmenou</i> 45, dated by its colophon to 1108 and used at the monastery of Christ Philanthropos in Constantinople. Single catecheses are also preserved in the fragments of Athos, <i>Vatopedi</i> 1216, and among the catecheses of Theodore Studite in <i>Atheniensis graecus</i> 295, <i>Serdicensis graecus</i> Dujcev 222 and in <i>Sinaiticus graecus</i> 482. Codex Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. <i>Cromwell</i> 22, signed by the hieromonachos Mark and dated 1315, bears the only explicit attribution of the catecheses to Paul of Evergetis. In it, the catecheses are adapted for a feminine audience.</p> <p>The <i>Katechetikon</i> provides liturgical readings for the morning office for each day of the year and functions according to the movable cycle of the liturgical year dependent on Easter, just as a Gospel Lectionary. Texts are selected from the following authors: Theodore Studite, Maximos Confessor, Pseudo-Makarios, Dorotheos of Gaza, Ephrem, Mark the Monk and Pseudo-Mark (Marcian), Neilos/Evagrios, John of Karpathos, Diadochos of Photike. The sources are edited with varying degrees of alteration. The <i>Apophthegmata Patrum</i> and passages from John Klimakos' <i>Ladder</i> are also quoted. In addition, the sources of forty-two texts remain unidentified.</p> <p>The purpose of the catecheses is to exhort the monks to virtue and assist them through difficulties in their monastic experience, thereby revealing the monastic ideals of the Evergetis founder.</p> |
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| title | An eleventh-century liturgical homiliary : the Evergetis Katechetikon |
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