LITERARY SOURCES IN THE KONTAKIA OF SAINT ROMANOS THE MELODIST USED IN BYZANTINE WORSHIP

Dmitry V. Spitsyn

St. Petersburg Theological Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia

Email: dmitrij.spitsin@ya.ru

Issue: № 1 (29), 2025

Pages: 65

Annotation

This article is of a historiographical nature and is devoted to the sources that scholars have identified in the kontakia of St. Romanos, which are still used in Byzantine worship today. During the review, the following sources discovered by scholars were identified: martyrdoms of saints, homilies and scriptural commentaries of the Holy Fathers, encomia, apocrypha, and antique literature.

Keywords

Romanos the Melodist, kontakion, hymnography, Ephraim the Syrian, worship.

For citation

Spitsyn D. V. Literary Sources in the Kontakia of Saint Romanos the Melodist Used in Byzantine Worship // Ipatievsky vestnik. 2025. № 1. Р. 65–77 (In Russian). https://doi.org/10.24412/2309–5164–2025–1–65–77