Landosiana : pratiques de traduction et culture religieuse grecque de la première modernité

Kovalenko, Illia
(2025) Séminaire d’Histoire comparée et connectée des christianismes orientaux (XVIe-XIXe siècles) — Location: Paris (4.November.2025)

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(en) This paper, delivered within the framework of the EPHE-PSL seminar Comparative and Connected History of Eastern Christianities (16th–19th centuries), presents the results of a codicological and palaeographical study of manuscripts produced by the Athonite workshop to which Agapios Landos (1595–1657), a Cretan religious writer and editor of spiritual and hagiographical texts, belonged. The analysis highlights the collective dimension of his spiritual and editorial project, as well as its continuity with a local reform movement initiated by Dionysios the Rhetor. The findings reveal a profound reconfiguration of the figure of the scribe and religious writer at the conclusion of Agapios’s editorial enterprise: from a simple copyist and book artisan, he gradually came to define himself as a monk invested with a spiritual mission aimed at the edification of the ecclesial body. This transformation is notably expressed through the use of the vernacular language and print in order to reach a broader audience, through the adoption of a posture endowed with spiritual authority within the texts and their paratexts, and through the growing tensions with his original milieu, concerned about the impact of print culture on traditional artisanal book practices.
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Kovalenko, I. (2025). Landosiana : pratiques de traduction et culture religieuse grecque de la première modernité. Séminaire d’Histoire comparée et connectée des christianismes orientaux (XVIe-XIXe siècles), Paris. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/271781