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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:

St Menas hagiography miracle collections Christian liturgy late antiquity

Descriptors:

  • HS1_009:
  • HS3_005:
  • HS1_014:

Panel:

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

Host institution :

UNIWERSYTET ŚLĄSKI, Wydział Humanistyczny

woj. 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 (Y-m-d): 2022-01-10

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2026-07-09

Project duration:: 54 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Pending project

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (10)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (1)
  1. Miracles of Saint Menas the Martyr: The Ethiopic Recension (Ta'ammera Minās, CAe 2386)
    Authors:
    Rafał Zarzeczny
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (rok: 2025, tom: 94, strony: 273–348), Wydawca: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.18363 - link to the publication
  2. The Miracles of Saint Menas in the Armenian Tradition
    Authors:
    Mirosław Cichoń
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (rok: 2025, tom: 94, strony: 167–180), Wydawca: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.17977 - link to the publication
  3. The Slavic Miracles of the Great Martyr Saint Menas by Timothy of Alexandria
    Authors:
    Jan Stradomski
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (rok: 2025, tom: 94, strony: 241–272), Wydawca: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.18043 - link to the publication
  4. 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 (rok: 2025, tom: 94, strony: 193-212), Wydawca: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.18041 - link to the publication
  5. Saint Menas and His Miracles in the Ethiopian Tradition
    Authors:
    Rafał Zarzeczny
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (rok: 2025, tom: 94, strony: 127–166), Wydawca: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.18362 - link to the publication
  6. Medieval Slavic Translations of the Miracles of Saint Menas: Sources and Textual Problems
    Authors:
    Jan Stradomski
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (rok: 2025, tom: 94, strony: 101–126), Wydawca: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.18042 - link to the publication
  7. Bibliography of St Menas and His Cult
    Authors:
    Przemysław Piwowarczyk
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (rok: 2025, tom: 94, strony: 2025), Wydawca: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.18565 - link to the publication
  8. Saint Menas in Medieval Georgia
    Authors:
    Nikoloz Aleksidze
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (rok: 2025, tom: 94, strony: 181–192), Wydawca: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.18142 - link to the publication
  9. 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 (rok: 2025, tom: 94, strony: 65–100), Wydawca: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.17968 - link to the publication
  10. Prolegomena to the Study of the Miracles of St Menas
    Authors:
    Przemysław Piwowarczyk
    Academic press:
    Vox Patrum (rok: 2025, tom: 94, strony: 35-64), Wydawca: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31743/vp.17966 - link to the publication
  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 (rok: 2025, tom: nie dotyczy, strony: 45-60), Wydawca: Peeters
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.2143/9789042957510 - link to the publication