Byzantine Orthodoxies: Papers from the Thirty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23–25 March 2002 (Publications for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies)

254 Pages·2006·6.451 MB·English

by  editors: Andrew Louth, Augustine Casiday

The Byzantine Empire - the Christianized Roman
Empire - very soon defined itself in terms of correct
theological belief, 'orthodoxy'. The terms of this belief
were hammered out, for the most part, by bishops, but
doctrinal decisions were made in councils called by the
Emperors, many of whom involved themselves directly
in the definition of 'orthodoxy'. Iconoclasm was an
example of such imperial involvement, as was the final
overthrow of iconoclasm. That controversy ensured that
questions of Christian art were also seen by Byzantines
as implicated in the question of orthodoxy.
The papers gathered in this volume derive from those
presented at the 36th Spring Symposium of Byzantine
Studies, Durham, March 2002. They discuss how
orthodoxy was defined, and the different interests that it
represented: how orthodoxy was expressed in art and
the music of the liturgy: and how orthodoxy helped
shape the Byzantine Empire's sense of its own identity,
an identity defined against the 'other' - Jews, heretics
and, especially from the turn of the first millennium, the
Latin West. These considerations raise wider questions
about the way in which societies and groups use world
views and issues of belief to express and articulate
identity. At a time when, with the enlargement of the
European Union, questions of identity within Europe are
once again becoming pressing, there is much in these
essays of topical relevance.
Byz.amine Orthodoxies is volume 12 in the series
published by Ashgate/Variorum on behalf of the Society
for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.
Jacket illustration: Triumph of Orthodoxy Icon. British
Museum, London. © Copyright the Trustees of The
British Museum.
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BYZANTINE ORTHODOXIES
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BYZANTINE ORTHODOXIES
Papers from the Thirty-sixth Spring Symposium
of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham,
23-25 March 2002
. edited by
Andrew Louth and Augustine Casiday
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Byzantine orthodoxies : proceedings of the 36th Spring Symposium of Byzantine
Studies, University of Durham, 23-25 March 2002. - (Publications for the Society for
the Promotion of Byzantine Studies)
1. Orthodox Eastern Church-History-Congresses 2. Religion and state-Byzantine
Empire-Congresses 3. Art and religion-Byzantine Empire-Congresses 4. Religion -
Philosophy-History-To 1500-Congresses 5. Byzantine Empire-Church history
Congresses
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Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (36th: 2002: University of Durham)
Byzantine orthodoxies: papers from the thirty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine
Studies, University of Durham, 23-25 March 2002 I edited by Andrew Louth and
Augustine Casiday.
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1. Orthodox Eastern Church-Byzantine Empire-Congresses. 2. Byzantine
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In Memoriam
)ergeevich Averintsev (1937-2003)
Contents
Preface ix
List of Abbreviations xi
List of illustrations xiii
1. Andrew Louth Introduction 1
Section I Defining orthodoxy
2. John Behr The question of Nicene Orthodoxy 15
3. Caroline Mace Gregory of Nazianzus as
the authoritative voice of
Orthodoxy in the sixth century 27
4. Dirk Krausmiiller Theotokos-Diadochos 35
5. Patricia Karlin-Hayter Methodios and his synod 55
6. Norman Russell Prochoros Cydones and
the fourteenth-century
understanding of Orthodoxy 75
Section II Orthodoxy in art and liturgy
7. Leslie Brubaker In the beginning was the Word:
Art and Orthodoxy at the
Councils of Trullo (692) and
Nicaea II (787) 95
8. Liz James ... and the Word was with God ...
What makes Art Orthodox? 103
9. Robin Cormack ...a nd the Word was God:
Art and Orthodoxy in Late
Byzantium 111
10. Dimitra Kotoula The British Museum
Triumph of Orthodoxy icon 121
11. Alexander Lingas Medieval Byzantine chant and
the sound of Orthodoxy 131
12. Archimandrite Ephrem
(Lash) Byzantine hymns of hate 151
vii
viii CONTENTS
Section III Orthodoxy and the other
13. Nicholas de Lange Can we speak of Jewish
Orthodoxy in Byzantium?
14. Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev The Apostolic Foundation Stone:
the conception of Orthodoxy
in the controversy between
Photius of Constantinople and
Isaac Surnamed Miut
15. Tia M. Kolbaba The Orthodoxy of the Latins
in the twelfth century
Epilogue
16. Sergei A verintsev Some constant characteristics
of Byzantine Orthodoxy
Index