Storyworlds in Short Narratives

Stavroula Constantinou, Ph.D. (2003), is the director of the Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals of the University of Cyprus and the editor-in-chief of Eventum: A Journal of Medieval Arts & Rituals. She has written on hagiography, narrative, gender, emotions, motherhood, and the body. Andria Andreou, Ph.D. (2017), is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals of the University of Cyprus. Her research interests lie mainly with narratives, the portrayal of gender, the art of storytelling, narrative voice, the orchestration of characters, and other theoretical approaches to Byzantine literature and modern theatre.

Preface


Notes on Editors and Contributors





Introduction


 Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou





Part 1: Tale Theory and Poetics


1 The Art of Short Narrative: Toward a Theory of the Late Antique and Byzantine Tale


 Stavroula Constantinou





2 Telling a Thauma in Hagiography and Paradoxography


 Christian Høgel





3 To Render Unbelievable Tales Believable: the Storyworlds of Paradoxography


 Ingela Nilsson





Part 2: The Art of Storytelling


4 Didactic Tales in Galen


 Sophia Xenophontos





5 Repetition and the Storyteller’s Profile in Early Byzantine Tale Collections


 Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou





6 Circulation of Hagiographical Tales along the Incense Route: Storytelling as Technology of Enchantment


 Nicolò Sassi





Part 3: Tales in Collections


7 Stunning with a List, Dazzling with a Catalogue: the Form of Paradoxographical and Christian Miracle Collections Revisited


 Julia Doroszewska





8 (Auto)biographical, Marvelous, and Supernatural Stories in Early Byzantine Hagiographical Anthologies


 Stavroula Constantinou and Andria Andreou





9 Space in Edifying Stories: the Case of Anastasios Sinaites


 Markéta Kulhánková





General Index