2014/09/02 by Peter Hatlie · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Byzantine Studies and History #Biblical Studies and Interpretation #Archaeology and Historical Studies
paper · doi:10.1093/ehr/ceu219
openalex publication_date 2014/09/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
This useful book comes to us by way of the Evergetis Project, a longstanding Byzantine collaborative research effort occupied with the history, texts and legacy of Constantinople’s Theotokos Evergetis Monastery. Despite its physical disappearance in modern times, the Evergetis is known to have been an important monastery in its day. The collection of texts left by its founders Paul (d. 1054) and Timothy (d. c.1067) points to its relatively fortunate standing in its contemporary monastic world, while the wide and ongoing reception of some of these texts is indicative of its special status within the Byzantine monastic tradition as a whole. Over the last two decades, members of the Evergetis Project have concentrated their efforts upon both re-evaluating the Evergetis dossier and making it more accessible to the scholarly public. Two dedicated collections of conference papers have already appeared (1994, 1997), along with an English translation of and commentary on the monastery’s original liturgical handbook (or typikon), the Synaxarion (2005–7). The present publication broadens access to the Evergetis dossier with the translation of a close companion piece to the Synaxarion: a founder’s handbook of the monastery’s broader internal workings and principles, called the Hypotyposis. Planned future volumes will include English translations of and commentaries on both an extant Evergetis homilary (the Katechetikon) and a spiritual manual (the Synagoge).