Articles/Chapters in Books by Susana Torres-Prieto
Philologie, herméneutique et histoire des textes entre Orient et Occident. Mélanges en hommage à Sever J. Voici, ed. Francesca P. Barone, Caroline Macé et Pablo A. Ubierna, 2017
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Harvard Ukrainian Studies , 2021
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Slovene, 2022
The oral heroic poems found in the Northern province of Olonets in the late nineteenth century, u... more The oral heroic poems found in the Northern province of Olonets in the late nineteenth century, usually known as byliny, present a unique case of oral preservation of medieval literature within European context. For decades, due to the lack of manuscript copies of those texts, theories about their origin have been highly conjectural and subject to many ideological demands. While any defi nitive conclusion on their authorship, place and time of composition has to remain necessarily speculative, the present article, analysing the internal evidence of the poems and what can be concluded from studies on orality in other literary traditions, proposes that they were originally composed in written form in a clerical environment in the Northern area of Kyivan Rus'.
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Byzantinoslavica, 2022
Alexander of Macedon’s life as narrated in the Alexander Romance was inserted early
in historiog... more Alexander of Macedon’s life as narrated in the Alexander Romance was inserted early
in historiographic works in East Slavic. One of the most innovative details was the
inclusion of the visit to Jerusalem of Alexander of Macedon in the First Book, following
the wording found in the chronicle of George Hamartolos, an episode he had borrowed
from Josephus. More surprising was the later interpolation within this interpolation
of a part of Epiphanios of Salamis’ treatise De Gemmis, precisely the part describing
the robes of the high priest in the Jewish temple and its relation to the filiation of the
tribes of Israel. Neither addition was accidental, and their resonances echoed loudly
in the limited literary corpus in Kyivan Rus’ dealing with sacred kingship. The present
article explores the functionality and instrumental use made by Kyivan scribes
of the figure of the Macedonian king and his special relation to the chosen people of
God. It was by means of these additions that Alexander acquired exclusively in East
Slavic the special status of a king whose deeds are key in the salvation of Israel and
of all Christianity.
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A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture, 2022
My chapter on the volume "A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture" edited by R. Stonema... more My chapter on the volume "A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture" edited by R. Stoneman. A surgery of all the Slavic traditions of the Alexander Romance.
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Ruthenica, 2019
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Apocrypha, Jan 1, 2011
... plus the Anaphora and the Paradosis, although in Slavonic Pilate's final repentance ... more ... plus the Anaphora and the Paradosis, although in Slavonic Pilate's final repentance and divine forgiveness are ... The earliest translations of this tradition would have been made in Bulgaria and not before the ... vary sometimes, but none of them refers to its use in a liturgical context. ...
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Epic and History, Jan 1, 2010
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Medieval Slavonic Studies, New Perspectives for Research, 2009
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'Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones, Jan 1, 2004
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Routledge, 2023
Research on the East Slavs in the medieval period has considerably changed since the collapse of ... more Research on the East Slavs in the medieval period has considerably changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The emergence of new states forced a rethinking of many aspects of the history and culture of the early East Slavs as the subject became increasingly disentangled from the umbrella of Byzantine studies and fruitful collaboration was fostered between scholars worldwide. This book, which brings together scholars from Russia, Ukraine, western Europe and North America, of several generations, presents a broad overview of the main results of the last three decades of research and mutual collaboration. This is important work, providing a much-needed counterbalance to studies of western Europe in the period, which has been the main focus of study, with the lands of the East Slavs relatively neglected.
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Traducción del ruso, introducción y notas
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Articles/Chapters in Books by Susana Torres-Prieto
in historiographic works in East Slavic. One of the most innovative details was the
inclusion of the visit to Jerusalem of Alexander of Macedon in the First Book, following
the wording found in the chronicle of George Hamartolos, an episode he had borrowed
from Josephus. More surprising was the later interpolation within this interpolation
of a part of Epiphanios of Salamis’ treatise De Gemmis, precisely the part describing
the robes of the high priest in the Jewish temple and its relation to the filiation of the
tribes of Israel. Neither addition was accidental, and their resonances echoed loudly
in the limited literary corpus in Kyivan Rus’ dealing with sacred kingship. The present
article explores the functionality and instrumental use made by Kyivan scribes
of the figure of the Macedonian king and his special relation to the chosen people of
God. It was by means of these additions that Alexander acquired exclusively in East
Slavic the special status of a king whose deeds are key in the salvation of Israel and
of all Christianity.
Books by Susana Torres-Prieto
in historiographic works in East Slavic. One of the most innovative details was the
inclusion of the visit to Jerusalem of Alexander of Macedon in the First Book, following
the wording found in the chronicle of George Hamartolos, an episode he had borrowed
from Josephus. More surprising was the later interpolation within this interpolation
of a part of Epiphanios of Salamis’ treatise De Gemmis, precisely the part describing
the robes of the high priest in the Jewish temple and its relation to the filiation of the
tribes of Israel. Neither addition was accidental, and their resonances echoed loudly
in the limited literary corpus in Kyivan Rus’ dealing with sacred kingship. The present
article explores the functionality and instrumental use made by Kyivan scribes
of the figure of the Macedonian king and his special relation to the chosen people of
God. It was by means of these additions that Alexander acquired exclusively in East
Slavic the special status of a king whose deeds are key in the salvation of Israel and
of all Christianity.
of the Convent of Sta. Cruz La Real (Segovia)
site of IE University
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE BIRTH OF UNIVERSITIES IN THE PERIPHERIES OF EUROPE
“FROM THE SCRIPTORIUM TO THE LIBRARY”
(Segovia, 10-12 June 2019)
Abstract: The model of the birth of universities in Europe has long been established taken as a model the developments that occurred in continental Western Europe particularly as a result of well-known processes: the Carolingian Renaissance, the vernacularisation of culture, the increasing relevance of cities, the empowerment of new social groups. Nevertheless, in large parts of what today is considered Europe, let alone Eurasia, the social and intellectual factors that defined this emergence of universities were often not present, or not all of them. In areas where the process of Christianization, and sometimes also literacy, had taken place later, or where the role of monasteries as the only centres of learning and literary activity lasted longer, or where a more or less permanent warfare existed, or where the adequate social environment had not yet been developed, the scriptoria and the libraries of monasteries and convents kept learning and cultural traditions for longer, often against all odds.
The aim of the present conference is to discuss and analyse, among others, aspects and questions such as:
What was the role of royal patronage in pushing forward this model of transmission of knowledge?
What is the impact of manuscript techniques (vis à vis the printing press) in the intellectual history of these areas?
How did the monastic environment conform the literary/philosophical/scientific/theological canon?
What was the educational role of these institutions?
How the knowledge transmitted was censored or slanted, if it was?
What social impact did these monastic learning communities have in their respective social environments?
How was the process of creation of universities in these areas, when and by whom?
In which respects, if in any, were nunneries different from the male counterparts?
Call for papers
The International Conference is organised by the Centre of Humanities if IE University on the occasion of the 800th Anniversary of its site in Segovia, a former Dominican foundation protected by the Spanish crown. A call for papers to participate is now open. Please send your title and abstract (200-300) to Segovia800years@ie.edu by November 30th, 2018.
Accommodation
On-campus accommodation and meals for speakers will be covered by the Centre of Humanities of IE University. Attendance for those wishing to attend without presenting a paper is free.
Publication
Papers will be published in an extraordinary volume of the peer-reviewed, indexed journal Oppidum.
Editing Mediaeval Texts from a Different Angle: Slavonic and Multilingual
Traditions, together with Francis J. Thomson’s Bibliography and Checklist
of Slavonic Translations, To Honour Francis J. Thomson on the Occasion of
His 80th Birthday, together with Proceedings of the ATTEMT Workshop held
at King’s College, London, 19–20 December 2013 and the ATTEST Workshop
held at the University of Regensburg, 11–12 December 2015, Orientalia
Lovaniensia Analecta, 276, Bibliothèque de Byzantion, 19 (Leuven–Paris–
Bristol, CT: Peeters, 2018)