Across centuries, languages, and cultures: The Miracles of Saint Menas as a historical source, literary composition and liturgical text

2021/41/B/HS1/00550

Keywords

Descriptors

  • HS1_009: Teorie religii, historia religii, nauki religioznawcze
  • HS3_005: Historia kultury (w tym: pamięć historyczna, historia kultury materialnej, historyczne studia kulturowe, zróżnicowanie kulturowe)
  • HS1_014: Teologia dogmatyczna, teologia biblijna, patrystyka

Panel

HS1 – Fundamental questions of human existence and the nature of reality: philosophy, cognition, religious studies, theology

Host institution

UNIWERSYTET ŚLĄSKI, Wydział Humanistyczny

Voivodeship: śląskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution)

dr hab. Przemysław Piwowarczyk

Number of co-investigators in the project: 7

Call

OPUS 21 – announced on 2021-03-15

Amount awarded
577 143 PLN
Project start date
2022-01-10
Project end date
2026-07-09
Project duration
54 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status
Pending project

Project description

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Information in the final report

Publication in academic press/journals (10)

  1. The Slavic Miracles of the Great Martyr Saint Menas by Timothy of Alexandria

    Authors:
    Jan Stradomski
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (year: 2025, volume: 94, pages: 241–272), Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.18043 – link to the publication
  2. Saint Menas in Medieval Georgia

    Authors:
    Nikoloz Aleksidze
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (year: 2025, volume: 94, pages: 181–192), Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.18142 – link to the publication
  3. I made you bear a son, and you shall call his name Mena! The Saint, the Egg, and Medieval Nubia

    Authors:
    Agata Deptuła
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (year: 2025, volume: 94, pages: 193-212), Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.18041 – link to the publication
  4. Menacing Menas? Saint Menas as a Military Saint and Divine Trickster in his Greek Miracle Collection (BHG 1256‑1269)

    Authors:
    Julia Doroszewska, Filip Doroszewski
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (year: 2025, volume: 94, pages: 65–100), Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.17968 – link to the publication
  5. The Miracles of Saint Menas in the Armenian Tradition

    Authors:
    Mirosław Cichoń
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (year: 2025, volume: 94, pages: 167–180), Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.17977 – link to the publication
  6. Miracles of Saint Menas the Martyr: The Ethiopic Recension (Ta'ammera Minās, CAe 2386)

    Authors:
    Rafał Zarzeczny
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (year: 2025, volume: 94, pages: 273–348), Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.18363 – link to the publication
  7. Saint Menas and His Miracles in the Ethiopian Tradition

    Authors:
    Rafał Zarzeczny
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (year: 2025, volume: 94, pages: 127–166), Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.18362 – link to the publication
  8. Medieval Slavic Translations of the Miracles of Saint Menas: Sources and Textual Problems

    Authors:
    Jan Stradomski
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (year: 2025, volume: 94, pages: 101–126), Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.18042 – link to the publication
  9. Prolegomena to the Study of the Miracles of St Menas

    Authors:
    Przemysław Piwowarczyk
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (year: 2025, volume: 94, pages: 35-64), Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.17966 – link to the publication
  10. Bibliography of St Menas and His Cult

    Authors:
    Przemysław Piwowarczyk
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (year: 2025, volume: 94, pages: 2025), Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.18565 – link to the publication

Book publications / chapters in book publications (1)

  1. Literary sources on Philoxenite: a survey

    Authors:
    Przemysław Piwowarczyk
    Book:
    Marea/Philoxenite: A Town and Pilgrimage Station on the Road to the Sanctuary of Saint Menas (Abu Mena). Volume 1 (year: 2025, volume: nie dotyczy, pages: 45-60), Publisher: Peeters
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.2143/9789042957510 – link to the publication

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