Workshop: Transfiguration & Dormition. Working Papers on the August Mēnaion & Related Traditions in the Christian East

• Centre for Advanced Studies

Research on the feasts of the Transfiguration of Christ (August 6) and the Dormition of the Theotokos (August 15) in the Christian East remains embryonic, despite these celebrations being amongst the most important in the annual sanctoral cycle. This workshop gathers scholars currently engaged in research on the history of these feasts, the books that transmit the liturgical materials pertaining to them, and related liturgical genres and book types. While the workshop will focus on the development of the August Mēnaion (in Greek and early Slavonic examples), which contains the developed Byzantine rites for the feasts, it will also examine the history of the feasts through sources  including the Armenian and Georgian Lectionaries of Jerusalem, the Georgian Old Iadgari, the Greek New Tropologion, the Armenian Sharaknoc’, and the Kanonarion-Synaxarion of the Great Church of Constantinople. The workshop aims to familiarise scholars currently working in diverse institutional contexts not only with the state of the question aspublished but also with the precise contours of ongoing projects and as yet unpublished research.