The Hypotyposis of the Monastery of the Theotokos Evergetis, Constantinople (11th–12th Centuries) Introduction, Translation and Commentary

This book forms part of the Evergetis Project which aims to investigate all surviving texts associated with the Monastery of the Theotokos Evergetis founded in 1049 near Constantinople. A book-length introduction sets out the historical significance of the house for the development of Byzantine monasticism and discusses its administration, liturgy and way of life. An English translation of the Hypotyposis (the monastery's foundation document) is provided, accompanied by detailed notes. Previous scholarship on the authorship of the Hypotyposis and the evolution of the text is discussed and linguistic analysis used to suggest that traces of the original foundation document by Paul Evergetinos can be identified within it. The Hypotyposis was widely used as a model for later Byzantine and Slavonic typika and the precise relationship of these documents one to the other is demonstrated in detail. The volume also includes prosopographical material on the known patrons of the monastery, a discussion of its library, English translations of later Greek and Latin texts referring to the monastery and a suggested reconstruction of Paul Evergetinos' original foundation document.

Contents: Preface; Introduction A: History: The Evergetis dossier; The history of the Evergetis monastery; The Evergetis and Byzantine monasticism in the 11th and 12th centuries. Introduction B: Administration and Life: The double hegoumenate; Monastic officers at the Evergetis; Status and possessions of the Evergetis; Liturgical practice at the Evergetis; Fasts, feasts and commemorations at the Evergetis; Reading and books at the Evergetis; Manuscript and book production: an Evergetis scriptorium. Introduction C: Text: The making of Paul's Typikon; Codex Atheniensis graecus 788; The final additions; Insertions in the Hypotyposis; The Hypotyposis: chapters and their titles; The Hypotyposis: an earlier structure; A Pauline Hypotyposis?; The influence of the Evergetis Hypotyposis; Exposition and hypotyposis for the life of the monks in the monastery of the most holy Theotokos Evergetis handed down by Timothy the monk and priest who became kathegoumenos after the founder of thesame monastery; Appendices; Glossary of monastic terms; Bibliography; Index.

Until his retirement, R.H. Jordan was Assistant Director of the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the Queen's University of Befast, UK. Rosemary Morris taught at the University of Manchester from 1974 to 2003, and is now Visiting Fellow at the University of York, UK.