SOME PECULIARITIES OF PAUL OF ALEPPO’S WRITING STYLE AS FOUND IN HIS TRAVEL ACCOUNT
SOME PECULIARITIES OF PAUL OF ALEPPO’S WRITING STYLE AS FOUND IN HIS TRAVEL ACCOUNT

Summary/Abstract: The famous 17th century historical source “The Travels of Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch” written by Archdeacon Paul of Aleppo (ca. 1627–1669), who accompanied his father in his journey to the countries of Eastern Europe (1652–1659), is a unique travel account from a number of perspectives. On the one hand, the linguistic material of the text of the Journal reflects first of all the features specific to the Arabic Christian literature of that epoch (mixture of Standard and colloquial Arabic), on the other hand it presents features of the author’s individual style, reflecting to some extent his identity. The Journal gives us some idea of the author’s attempts to put his work in a context of the Arabic literary tradition (e.g. by using rhymed prose), but at the same time the text reflects the unique impact that the long-term contacts within the post-Byzantine Orthodox space had on the linguistic means used by the author. His lexical preferences, abundant foreign vocabulary (Greek, Turkish, Slavic, Russian, Romanian lexemes), its stylistic functions and the author’s linguistic attitudes are of special interest for the research.

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