Marco Scarpa

Marco Scarpa is professor in Università degli Studi di Messina and Cyrillo-Methodian Research Center, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. Main fields of research: Medieval Savonic literature, ascetic and polemic texts, slavic palaeography. He is a head of the project “Fourtheen century South Slavic scribes and scriptoria (palaeographic attribution and online repertoire)” („Южнославянски кописти и скриптории от XIV век (палеографска атрибуция и онлайн реперториум)“) financed by Scientific Fund of Bulgaria, 2021–2024, Cyrillo-Methodian Research Center, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

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Università degli Studi di Messina and Cyrillo-Methodian Research Center, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia

Scripta & e-Scripta vol. 22, 2022

Marco Scarpa Ascetico-Monastic Miscellanies: a New Type of Miscellanies in the Slavic 14th Century

Марко Скарпа. Аскетично-монашески сборници: нов тип сборници през славянския XIV век

Summary/Abstract

Personal as well as communal reading is one of the main activities in the monk’s daily life, as witnessed since ancient times. In all likelihood, the readings within the great ascetic framework were then concretely linked to the spiritual proposal that inspired the individual community. Gregory of Sinai himself gave advice on ascetic readings for the monks around him. It was precisely for this use that miscellaneous manuscripts containing texts for reading were formed. In Slavic, the first manuscripts of this type to be attested date back to the fourteenth century and refer directly to the communities linked to Gregory of Sinai.

Subject: Scripta Medieval Studies Linguistic History of Literature

Keywords: Ascetico-Monastic Miscellanies. Gregory of Sinai. fourteenth century. monastic reading

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