The Seventeenth-Century Romanian Tradition of the Akathistos Hymn Between Variation and Standardisation
The Seventeenth-Century Romanian Tradition of the Akathistos Hymn Between Variation and Standardisation

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the seventeenth-century Romanian tradition of the Akathistos Hymn and studies the process of its adaptation in Romanian literature. It focuses both on manuscripts and books and inquires about their filiation; it examines to what extent the Romanian translators attempted to preserve the main prosodical elements of the Hymn and it sheds light on the main rhetorical strategies devised by the translators and scribes in order to render the Hymn in Romanian. It also pays attention to how these rhetorical strategies evolved over the course of the seventeenth century.

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