Data management for the project "The Practice of Intertextuality in the Hagiographical Writing. A Literary-Study Approach to the Presence of the Bible in Middle Byzantine Hagiography (8th-10th c.)"

As the first comprehensive study of Biblical intertextuality in Middle Byzantine Hagiography (8th-10th c.), this project will lead to a monograph study contributing the following to the study of Byzantine Christianity and hagiography: (a) I will implement a methodological framework to analyse (Middle) Byzantine Hagiography’s interconnections with other texts (especially Scriptures); (b) I will look at the cultural dimension of the topic, considering intertextuality as a cognitive phenomenon which results in the cooperation between authors and audiences and, as a consequence, as a literary phenomenon from which we can infer information about the Biblical culture of authors and audiences and the cultural model that underlies the relationship between the Byzantines and the Christian sacred text; (c) I will offer an overall characterization of Biblical intertextuality in Middle Byzantine hagiography as part of the Byzantines’ language of communication.