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The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire /

This title describes the role of the medieval Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (c.600-c.1453), discussing landmark events in ecclesiastical affairs, the influence of the Church on the West, its officials and organization, and the spirituality of laity, monks and clergy.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hussey, J. M. (Joan Mervyn)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1986.
Colección:Oxford history of the Christian Church.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Abbreviations
  • Foreword to Reissue
  • List of Rulers, Popes, and Patriarchs
  • List of Maps
  • Introduction
  • PART I: CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE WITHIN THE HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK
  • I. The Christological Problem in the Early Middle Ages
  • 1. The seventh-century watershed in the Byzantine Empire
  • 2. The theological background to seventh-century monotheletism
  • 3. Monenergism and monotheletism against a background of imperial crisis
  • 4. The Quinisext council (691-692)
  • II. The Iconoclast Controversy 726-843
  • 1. The North Syrian rulers: the first phase 726-787.
  • 2. The first restoration of the icons
  • 3. The second phase of iconoclasm
  • 4. The restoration of orthodoxy in 843: the Synodicon
  • 5. The significance of the controversy over icons
  • III. The Age of Photius 843-886
  • 1. Patriarch Methodius (843-847): the first patriarchate of Ignatius (847-858)
  • 2. Photius's first patriarchate (858-867)
  • 3. Ignatius's second patriarchate (867-877)
  • the council of Constantinople (869-870)
  • 4. Photius's second patriarchate (877-886): the council of 879-880: the alleged second Photian schism
  • 5. Photius-churchman and humanist.
  • 6. Byzantine missionary activities in the early middle ages
  • IV. Leo VI's Dilemma: Nicholas Mysticus and Euthymius 886-925
  • 1. Leo VI: the Emperor's fourth marriage
  • 2. Nicholas I's second patriarchate (912-925): the interdependence of church and state
  • V. The Patriarchate (925-1025): The Predominance of Constantinople
  • 1. Co-operation and criticism 925-970
  • 2. The imperial advance in the East: the Muslims and the non-Chalcedonian Churches
  • 3. Caucasian and North Pontic regions: Russia
  • 4. Byzantium and South Italy.
  • VI. Increasing Pressures on Constantinople and the Widening Gap 1025-1204
  • 1. Impending threats
  • 2. Patriarchs (1025-1081)
  • 3. 1081: a new era or continuity?
  • 4. Philosophers and theologians: individual heretics: ecclesiastical currents
  • 5. The dualist heresies
  • 6. Relations with the West
  • VII. The Effects of the Fourth Crusade 1204-1261
  • 1. The patriarchate of Constantinople 1204-1261: the Latins in occupation
  • 2. Ecclesiastical organization within the various Latin conquests
  • 3. Thirteenth-century rival Byzantine churches: Nicaea and Epirus
  • 4. The Nicaean Empire and Rome.
  • VIII. Contacts: Failure and Achievement 1258-1453
  • 1. Michael VIII Palaeologus and the papacy: Byzantine doubts concerning union 1258-1274
  • 2. Michael VIII and the council of Lyons (1274)
  • 3. Byzantine reaction to the union 1274-1282
  • 4. Andronicus II and Andronicus III: internal problems: Josephites and Arsenites: repudiation of the union
  • 5. Patriarch Athanasius I and his immediate successors
  • 6. Renewed contacts with the West under Andronicus II and Andronicus III
  • 7. Palamite problems
  • 8. John V Palaeologus and John VI Cantacuzenus: Constantinople and the West.