El Encomio a Ignacio de Miguel Sincelo (BHG 818): Introducción, Edición y Traducción Anotada

The so-called ‘anti-photian collection’ preserves a synthetic summary from the encomium to the Patriarch Ignatios composed by a certain Michael the Synkellos. The date of composition or the exact moment of its pronunciation are unknown, but it is possible that it was read on the anniversary of the Patriarch’s death or his burial in the Monastery of Satyros. Despite being a summary, the text conserves traces of the original rhetoric structure and, like a βίοςσὺνἐγκωμίῳ, it could be the model on which Nicetas David composed the Vita Ignatii. This article provides a new critical edition based on the most important manuscripts with exegetical notes

Discurso Ajeno en las Homilías de Alfonso de Castro: Presencia y mecanismos de introducción

The 16thcentury Franciscan preacher Alfonso de Castro writes a set of twenty-five homilies dedicated to Psalm 50. In its composition, periods of discourse that are specific to the author are mixed in a continuous and masterly manner along with others of the same and of different origin. In this article we address the presence of this foreign discourse by virtue of two specific needs: firstly, to review and update a previous typological proposal and, secondly, to delve into the distribution of such periods throughout the sermons as well as in the mechanisms used by the author when inserting them between his own words

Los Anales Cordubenses y la historiografía breve andaluza de la Baja Edad Media

Although traditionally it was considered that the annals were the form of historical writing in the Early Middle Ages and fell into decline in the thirteenth century, several witnesses prove that the series of annals –i.e., series of concise historical records arranged chronologically –were copied, corrected, expanded, and continued, bringing it up to date, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This article comprises a study of a series of annals copied in the fifteenth century, but composed before, that cover the history of the Castilian Crown, focusing especially on the so-called Reconquest. As we will try to show, its contents are closely related to other annals written in Andalusia in the first half of the fourteenth century, as well as to later similar compositions

El discurso de César en Vesontio de la Historia Romana de Casio Dión: aspectos literarios y culturales

Julius Caesar’s Speech at Vesontio in Dio’s Roman historywas usually analysed from a legal perspective and under the rigor of the Quellenforschung. These approaches undervalued the Thucydidean reminiscences, which became mere rhetorical traits without special signification. In this paper is proposed a re-examination of the Thucydidean imitation, in order to interpret it in the literary processes of Imperial literature. This perspective undermines the negative interpretation of Caesar that recently was attributed to Cassius Dio, and the speech makes sense in the global design of the character in the Roman history