Do Isaac de João Cassiano ao Isaac de Nínive: processos de incorporação textual na tradição latina

Abstract

The textual tradition of Isaac of Nineveh’s work has as salient aspect different cases of textual incorporation (addition of texts of one author to the textual tradition of another author). Previous studies have provided as explanation for such cases thematic affinity and material contiguity, but the tradition of Isaac of Nineveh’s work suggests that there is another pertinent motivation: onomastic similarity. In the present study, we analyze the process of textual incorporation of a chapter of John Cassian’s Collations to the Latin textual tradition of Isaac of Nineveh’s work. The force of textual attraction that the work of Isaac exerted throughout its tradition would come from a movement of reconstruction of the knowledge about the author.