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Title: | Der Schriftgebrauch bei Kassia | English Title: | Kassia and her use of Scripture | Contributor(s): | Silvas, Anna M (author) | Publication Date: | 2019 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/27872 | Abstract: | Kassia, Cassia, Kasia, Kassiane, Eikasia oder Ikasia - in diesen Varianten ist ihr Name liberliefert oder buchstabiert worden - war eine byzantinische Nonne aus dem 9. Jh. Sie ist die herausragende Dichterin der griechischen Kirche und die Einzige der vier oder ftinf zweifelsfrei identifizierten griechischsprachigen Hymnenschreiberinnen,1 deren Werke nachweislich Aufnahme in die liturgischen Blicher gefunden haben. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Zwischen Orient und Okzident: Fruhmittelalter (6.-11. Jh.), v.6, p. 61-78 | Publisher: | Verlag W Kohlhammer | Place of Publication: | Stuttgart, Germany | ISBN: | 9783170354777 9783170354784 3170354787 3170354779 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 220499 Religion and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified 200305 Latin and Classical Greek Languages |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470316 Latin and classical Greek languages | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280119 Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies | HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | https://www.kohlhammer.de/wms/instances/KOB/appDE/Theologie/Kirchen-Theologie-und-Dogmengeschichte/Zwischen-Orient-und-Okzident-Fruehmittelalter-6-11-Jh-978-3-17-035477-7 | Series Name: | Die Bibel und die Frauen - Eine exegetisch-kulturgeschichtliche Enzyklopädie | English Abstract: | Kassia, Cassia, Kasia, Kassiane, Eikasia or Ikasia, as her name is variously recorded or spelt, was a nun of ninth century Byzantium and the outstanding female poet of the Greek Church. Of the four Greek-speaking women hymnographers positively identified[1], she is the only one known to have had her works admitted into the liturgical books. Kassia was born around the year 810 to an aristocratic family of Constantinople. From the surname κανδιδατίσση[2] it is conjectured that her father held the high military post of Candidatus at the imperial court. Like other girls of a privileged circle, Kassia received a good education[3], achieving a high degree of literacy in the Greek language. She studied the Scriptures, the Patristic classics—specially St Gregory Nazianzen—sacred music, poetry and metre, and possibly some Hellenic classics, e.g. Homer. The curriculum covered what we might call primary and early secondary studies, and usually, but not always, stopped short of higher studies in rhetoric and philosophy. For women of Kassia’s calibre in ninth century Byzantium there was some window of opportunity to develop their gifts, which however soon closed with a resurgence of misogynist sentiment from the tenth century onwards. | Editor: | Editor(s): Franca Ela Consolino and Judith Herrin |
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