SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF BYZANTINE AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES 4 • 2018 JOURNAL OF BYZANTINE SCANDINAVIAN BYZANTINE AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES Barbara Crostini 9 Greek Astronomical Manuscripts: New Perspectives from Swedish Collections Filippo Ronconi 19 Manuscripts as Stratified Social Objects Anne Weddigen 41 Cataloguing Scientific Miscellanies: the Case of Parisinus Graecus 2494 Alberto Bardi 65 Persian Astronomy in the Greek Manuscript Linköping kl. f. 10 Dmitry Afinogenov 89 Hellenistic Jewish texts in George the Monk: Slavonic Testimonies Alexandra Fiotaki & Marika Lekakou 99 The perfective non-past in Modern Greek: a corpus study Yannis Smarnakis 119 Thessaloniki during the Zealots’ Revolt (1342-1350): Power, Political Violence and the Transformation of the Urban Space David Wills 149 “The nobility of the sea and landscape”: John Craxton and Greece 175 Book Reviews ISSN 2002-0007 No 4 • 2018 SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF BYZANTINE AND MODERN GREEK STUDIES Vol. 4 2018 1 We gratefully thank the Ouranis Foundation, Athens for the financial support of the present volume Printed by MediaTryck 2019 Layout: Bengt Pettersson 2 Contents Articles Barbara Crostini Greek Astronomical Manuscripts: New Perspectives from Swedish Collections.........................................9 Filippo Ronconi Manuscripts as Stratified Social Objects..............................................19 Anne Weddigen Cataloguing Scientific Miscellanies: ...................................................41 the Case of Parisinus Graecus 2494 Alberto Bardi Persian Astronomy in the Greek Manuscript Linköping kl. f. 10 ........65 Dmitry Afinogenov Hellenistic Jewish texts in George the Monk: Slavonic Testimonies...89 Alexandra Fiotaki & Marika Lekakou The perfective non-past in Modern Greek: a corpus study...................99 Yannis Smarnakis Thessaloniki during the Zealots’ Revolt (1342-1350): Power, ..........119 Political Violence and the Transformation of the Urban Space. David Wills “The nobility of the sea and landscape”: John Craxton and Greece ...149 Book Reviews Demetrios Agoritsas Thomas Arentzen, The Virgin in Song: Mary and the Poetry of .......175 Romanos the Melodist. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, xiii + 265 pp., 10 black and white figures, ISBN: 978-0-81-224907-1. 3 Demetrios Agoritsas Daniel Galadza, Liturgy and Byzantinization in Jerusalem. Oxford ...180 University Press, 2018, xvi + 438 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-881203-6. Thomas Arentzen Adam J. Goldwyn, Byzantine Ecocriticism. Women, Nature, .............184 and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance, The New Middle Ages. Cham: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2018, 240 pp., ISBN 978-3-319-69203-6. Barbara Crostini N.G. Wilson, From Byzantium to Italy. Greek Studies in the .............187 Italian Renaissance, 2nd edn (London, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), 231 pp., ISBN PB: 978-1-4742-5047-4. Olof Heilo Erik Sjöberg, The Making of the Greek Genocide: Contested ..........194 Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe. Berghahn. Studies on War and Genocide 2017, 258 pp., ISBN 978-1-78920-063-8. Kyriaco Nikias Richard Clogg. Greek to Me: A M emoir of Academic Life. ............197 IB Tauris. 2018, 384 pp., ISBN 9781784539887. Contributors .......................................................................................203 4 Editorial For the current volume of the Journal we have invited as a guest-editor, Barbara Crostini, Associate Professor in the Department of Philology and Linguistics at Uppsala University. In August 2017 Barbara Crostini organized an international workshop entitled Greek Astronomical Man- uscripts: New Perspectives from Swedish Collections. Three research articles of this workshop, by Filippo Ronconi, Anne Weddigen and Al- berto Bardi as well an introduction presented by Barbara Crostini are included in the current issue of SJBMGS. Moreover, the current issue includes an article by Dmitry Afinog- enov, based on his 2017 lecture in the memory of Professor Lennart Rydén, a study by Alexandra Fiotaki and Marika Lekakou which is a corpus based analysis of the perfective non-past in Modern Greek, and finally an article by David Wills on the representations of Greece in the letters of the British painter John Craxton. The review section of the Journal features six book reviews that en- compass studies on Byzantine and Modern Greek language, literature, culture and history published in 2017-2018. The Journal is open for unpublished articles and book reviews re- lated to Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies in the fields of philology, linguistics, history and literature. Vassilios Sabatakakis Modern Greek Studies Lund University 5 6 Instructions for contributors to Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies SJBMGS encourages scholarly contributions within Byzantine and Modern Greek philology and history. Manuscripts of articles to be considered for publication should be sent to [email protected] or Marianna Smaragdi, Centre for Lan- guages and Literature, Lund University, Box 201, 22100 Lund, Sweden. Your article will be refereed. If it is accepted for publication, you will be asked to supply a final version on e-mail. Authors will receive five copies of the journal volume. The SJBMGS is a nonprofit venture to be distributed on an exchange basis to scholars and libraries. Copyright: The authors and the editor. Editorial Board: Panagiotis Agapitos, professor, University of Cyprus Demetrios Agoritsas, PhD Christoforos Charalambakis, professor, University of Athens Julia Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister, professor, University of Cyprus Eric Cullhed, senior lecturer, University of Uppsala Olof Heilo, PhD, deputy director, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul David Holton, professor emeritus, University of Cambridge Christian Høgel, professor wso, University of Southern Denmark Ingela Nilsson, professor, University of Uppsala Staffan Wahlgren, professor, NTNU, Trondheim Editor-in-chief: Vassilios Sabatakakis [email protected] 7 8 Monographic section Greek Astronomical Manuscripts: New Perspectives from Swedish Collections Contents Barbara Crostini (Guest editor) Introduction Filippo Ronconi Manuscripts as Stratified Social Objects Anne Weddigen Cataloguing Scientific Miscellanies: the Case of Paris. gr. 2494 Alberto Bardi Persian Astronomy in the Greek Manuscript Linköping kl. f. 10 Introduction Barbara Crostini The International Workshop, Greek Astronomical Manuscripts: New Perspectives from Swedish Collections, was held at Uppsala University, 24-25 August 2017. The Workshop was sponsored by the Faculty of Phi- lology and Linguistics at Uppsala University with a generous award.1 The purpose of the meeting was twofold: to gather experts in this spe- cialized field, and to reflect about methods of manuscript cataloguing, with specific reference to Greek astronomical manuscripts. Interest in astronomy has grown among Byzantinists. In Sweden, the work by Börje Bydén, the leading voice in this field, is marked by his edition and study of Theodore Metochites’ Stoicheiosis Astronomike.2 In 1 My thanks to the Faculty for supporting this event. 2 Börje Bydén, Theodore Metochites’ Stoicheiosis Astronomike and the Study of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics in Early Palaiologan Byzantium, Studia Graeca et Latina 9 Belgium, research has progressed almost single-handedly through the activity and, one senses, the enthusiasm of Anne Tihon3 of the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, now followed by her students, such as Régine Leurquin4 and Anne-Laurence Caudano.5 Tihon conveys such excitement in a recent summary of the current knowledge of Byzantine astronomy. Evidently, such interest is derived from the fact that many texts still need to be studied from the original manuscripts, and that, by the thirteenth and fourteenth century, when ‘interest in astronomy was growing in the Byzantine world as everywhere in the European countries’, such manuscripts tell the story not only of textual transmis- sion, but also often of their scribes as authors and owners.6 Yet, on all accounts, many puzzles remain, generated not least by the volume of information still needing to be scrutinized by careful study and made available in new editions. Tihon’s article sets out very clearly the boundaries between astrono- my and astrology, not necessarily along modern scientific discrimina- tions that imply a hierarchical ranking with a value judgement attached, but according to a distinction between ‘theoretical’ and ‘practical’, where, in the first category, some of the modern scientific methodol- ogy can be found in reasoning about the universe. Thus, the sections in her article are divided according to types of astronomical theories. The first category is cosmology, a branch that is so speculative as to be associated, in fact, with both philosophical and theological speculation. As Benjamin Anderson shows in his comprehensive and beautifully il- lustrated book, cosmological diagrams enter the illustration of biblical Gothoburgensia, 66 (Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2003). 3 Anne Tihon, Etudes d’astronomie Byzantine, Variorum Reprints. Collected Studies Se- ries (Aldershot, Variorum, 1994). 4 Theodorus Meliteniota, Tribiblos Astronomique, ed. Régine Leurquin, Corpus des As- tronomes Byzantins, (Amsterdam: Gieben, 1990). 5 Anne Caudano, “Let There Be Lights in the Firmament of the Heaven”: Cosmological Depictions in Early Rus, Suppl. 2 vols, Palaeoslavica 14 (Cambridge Mass.: Palaeo- slavica, 2006). 6 Anne