Metamorphoses of ascetic texts in some depictions of St. Cyriacus the anchorite in the Balkans from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century

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Vasilev, T. (2018). Metamorphoses of ascetic texts in some depictions of St. Cyriacus the anchorite in the Balkans from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century, (42), 155-164. doi:10.2298/ZOG1842155V
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Title

Metamorphoses of ascetic texts in some depictions of St. Cyriacus the anchorite in the Balkans from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century

Subtitle
Author

Tsvetan, Vasilev

Journal

Zograf

Volume
Issue

42

Start page

155

End page

164

ISSN

0350-1361

ISBN
DOI

10.2298/ZOG1842155V

URL

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-13611842155V

Date

2018-2020/03/12/14:04:17

Abstract

The text presents several unpublished Greek inscriptions written on the scrolls of St. Cyriacus the Anchorite from Bulgaria. The main focus falls on an inscription from the narthex of the Rozhen Monastery (sixteenth century) and its identification; parallel inscriptions observed in Athonite monasteries are discussed too. A second group of inscriptions from Bulgaria and Macedonia are also discussed, with a stronger focus on an inscription in the church St. Apostles Peter and Paul in Veliko Tarnovo. The linguistic analysis attempts to discern the patterns by which such ascetic texts are visualized and transformed along the way from their original textual source to their final destination - the wall painting.

Keywords

Byzantine art, ascetic texts, Byzantine epigraphy, Greek inscriptions, medieval monasticism, post-Byzantine art, sayings of the desert fathers