An Experiment in Comparative Paratextology: Verses and Colophons in Greek and Armenian Gospel Books
(2024) Paratexts in Premodern Writing Cultures — Location: Gent, Universiteit Gent (24.June.2024)
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- A common thread across the different cultures that made up the medieval Christian world was the gradual enrichment of Gospel books over time by a number of paratextual and artistic features. Some features hint at a history of contacts and parallel evolutions, while others tend to be more specific to a given culture or milieu. This paper focuses on two paratextual genres – book epigrams and scribal colophons – naturally given to variation and creativity to explore the ways in which the Gospels were framed in Byzantine and Armenian book culture.
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Van Elverdinghe, E. (2024). An Experiment in Comparative Paratextology: Verses and Colophons in Greek and Armenian Gospel Books. Paratexts in Premodern Writing Cultures, Gent, Universiteit Gent. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/236292