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Malattia e miracoli di guarigione nelle riscritture agiografiche. Il caso delle redazioni della Vita di Andronico e sua moglie Atanasia, santa travestita
Taragna, Anna Maria
2025
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2785-1346
Abstract
In the redactio Mosquensis of the so-called Imperial Menologion – a collection of hagiographic texts intended to support prayers for the spiritual salvation and physi¬cal health of the epileptic emperor Michael IV the Paphlagonian (1034-1041) – there appears a peculiar narrative belonging to the limited corpus of Lives of cross-dressed female saints: the Bios of Andronikos and his wife Athanasia. This account constitutes an abridged version of a hagiographic narrative that, in various aspects, is connected to the medical sphere, but is also notable for the motif of Athanasia’s disguise as the ‘monk Athanasios’. The story of the two miracle-workers, Andronikos and his wife – both associated with the well-known figure of Abbas Daniel of Scetis (6th century) – en¬joyed considerable popularity over the centuries. In part of the manuscript tradition, the themes of illness and miraculous healing are developed with notable richness and variation, depending on the recension, as this contribution briefly illustrates through an overview of several of these hagiographic rewritings. The edition of the Epilogus (BHG 123h) to the Life of the two saints, as transmitted in manuscript Oxford, Bodl. Holkham gr. 27, is presented in the Appendix.
Nella redazione mosquense del cosiddetto Menologio Imperiale – una raccolta di testi agiografici destinati alla preghiera per la salvezza spirituale e la salu¬te fisica dell’imperatore epilettico Michele IV Paflagone (1034-1041) – figura un racconto particolare che appartiene al ristretto novero delle Vite delle sante travestite: il bios di Andronico e sua moglie Atanasia. Si tratta della versione abbreviata di una narrazione agiografica connessa per vari tratti all’ambito me¬dico, ma che colpisce altresì per il motivo del travestimento della santa quale ‘monaco Atanasio’. La vicenda dei due taumaturghi Andronico e Atanasia, le¬gati alla nota figura dell’abbas Daniele di Sceti (VI sec.), ha goduto di grande fortuna nei secoli, e in parte della tradizione manoscritta il tema della malattia e dei miracoli di guarigione viene sviluppato con una certa dovizia di elementi e variazioni, a seconda delle redazioni, come viene illustrato nel presente con¬tributo, in cui si ripercorrono brevemente alcune di queste riscritture agiografi¬che. In appendice, è proposta l’edizione dell’Epilogus (BHG 123h) della Vita dei due santi, trasmesso nel ms. oxoniense Bodl. Holkham gr. 27.
In the redactio Mosquensis of the so-called Imperial Menologion – a collection of hagiographic texts intended to support prayers for the spiritual salvation and physi¬cal health of the epileptic emperor Michael IV the Paphlagonian (1034-1041) – there appears a peculiar narrative belonging to the limited corpus of Lives of cross-dressed female saints: the Bios of Andronikos and his wife Athanasia. This account constitutes an abridged version of a hagiographic narrative that, in various aspects, is connected to the medical sphere, but is also notable for the motif of Athanasia’s disguise as the ‘monk Athanasios’. The story of the two miracle-workers, Andronikos and his wife – both associated with the well-known figure of Abbas Daniel of Scetis (6th century) – en¬joyed considerable popularity over the centuries. In part of the manuscript tradition, the themes of illness and miraculous healing are developed with notable richness and variation, depending on the recension, as this contribution briefly illustrates through an overview of several of these hagiographic rewritings. The edition of the Epilogus (BHG 123h) to the Life of the two saints, as transmitted in manuscript Oxford, Bodl. Holkham gr. 27, is presented in the Appendix.
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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Anna Maria Taragna, "Malattia e miracoli di guarigione nelle riscritture agiografiche. Il caso delle redazioni della Vita di Andronico e sua moglie Atanasia, santa travestita" in: "ERAT OLIM. Nuovi materiali e contributi per la storia della narrativa greco-latina 5 (2025)", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2025, pp. 29-87
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