The Reception of Byzantine Hagiography During the Ottoman Period: The Neon Leimonarion and the Martyrdom of Saint Isidore as Examples of Post-Byzantine Metaphrasis
The Neon Leimonarion (Νέον Λειμωνάριον) is a collection of hagiographical and hymnographic texts printed in Venice in 1819. The book includes Martyrdoms, Lives and Miracles of Saints, who lived during the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Period. Most of them are abbreviated versions of older hagiographical texts, which were recomposed and translated into Modern Greek mainly…
