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La sténographie de Michel Psellos (The Stenography of Michael Psellos)

    Paolo Odorico

Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 69, pp. 275-288, 2020/05/28

doi: 10.1553/joeb69s275

doi: 10.1553/joeb69s275

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doi:10.1553/joeb69s275



doi:10.1553/joeb69s275

Abstract

The aim of this article is to contribute to our understanding of a very controversial passage in Psellos’s Encomium of Symeon Metaphrastes, where this author alludes to a team working for Metaphrastes, that is composed of three groups of copyists. Though it has recently been suggested again in recent studies, the conventional interpretation of this passage according to which stenography could be in play, is far from convincing. Two solutions are proposed here: either the redaction process of the Menologion of Metaphrastes was different from how it has been conceived, or—more likely—Psellos is referring to another work by Metaphrastes.

Keywords: Michael Psellos, Symeon Metaphrastes, Compilation Literature, Byzantine Scholars