Never the Twain Shall Meet? Latins and Greeks Learning from Each Other in Byzantium

370 Pages·2017·2.068 MB·English

by  Denis Searby

Never the Twain Shall Meet?
Byzantinisches Archiv –
Series Philosophica
Herausgegeben von
Sergei Mariev
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat:
John Demetracopoulos, Jozef Matula,
John Monfasani, Inmaculada Pérez Martín,
Brigitte Tambrun-Krasker
Band 2
Never the Twain
Shall Meet?
Latins and Greeks learning from each other in Byzantium
Edited by
Denis Searby
ISBN 978-3-11-055958-3
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Acknowledgements
This volume would not have been possible without the generous support of the
Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) that funded the Stockholm University
conference“NevertheTwain”(June24–26,2015)whichwasthebasisforthepapers
collectedhere.AlsotobethankedinthisconnectionaretheHaraldochTonnyHa-
gendahlsminnesfondwhichprovidedadditionalfundingaswellastheDepartmentof
RomanceStudiesandClassicsatStockholmUniversitywhichhostedtheconference,
andAstridSöderberghWidding,theViceChancelloroftheuniversity,forherwordsof
welcomeinspirationthatopenedtheconference.Naturally,thecontributingauthors
aswellastheanonymousreviewersarealsotobethankedforalltheirhardwork.A
specialnoteofgratitudeisduetoProfessorSergeiMariev,theeditoroftheByzantini-
schesArchiv–SeriesPhilosophica,andtohisteamofhighlyeffectivetypesetterswho
workedwithimpressivecelerityoncetheyreceivedthefinalversionsofthepapers.
Stockholm,May2017 DenisSearby
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110561074-005

Contents
ListofContributors | IX
DenisM.Searby
Foreword | 1
FranzTinnefeld
TranslationsfromLatintoGreek | 9
MarcusPlested
ReconfiguringEastandWestinByzantineandModernOrthodox
Theology | 21
JohnMonfasani
GeorgeofTrebizond,ThomasAquinas,andLatinScholasticism | 47
AntoineLevy
TranslatableandUntranslatableAquinas | 63
PanagiotisC.Athanasopoulos
BessarionofNicaeavs.MarkEugenicus | 77
IriniBalcoyiannopoulou
NewEvidenceontheManuscriptTraditionandontheLatinandGreekBackground
tοGeorgeScholarius’In“DeInterpretatione” | 93
Marie-HélèneBlanchet
TheTwoByzantineTranslationsofThomasAquinas’DeRationibusFidei | 115
JohnA.Demetracopoulos
Scholarios’OnAlmsgiving,orHowtoConvertaScholastic“Quaestio”intoa
Sermon | 129
PantelisGolitsis
ἐσέντζια,ὀντότης,οὐσία | 179
BrianM.Jensen
HugoEterianusandhisTwoTreatisesintheDemetriusofLampeAffair | 197
VIII | Contents
ChristianW.Kappes
GregoriosPalamas’ReceptionofAugustine’sDoctrineoftheOriginalSinand
NicholasKabasilas’RejectionofAquinas’MaculismastheBackgroundto
Scholarios’Immaculism | 207
MichailKonstantinou-Rizos
ProchorosCydones’TranslationofThomasAquinas’Quaestionesdisputataede
potentiaandQuaestiodisputatadespiritualibuscreaturis | 259
SergeiMariev
NatureasinstrumentumDei | 275
TikhonAlexanderPino
HylomorphismEastandWest | 291
GeorgiosSteiris
Pletho,ScholariosandArabicphilosophy | 309
SelectedBibliography | 335
Index | 355
List of Contributors
PanagiotisC.Athanasopoulos,PhDisaresearchassistantattheDepartmentofHumanities,Ca’Foscari
UniversityofVenice,andacollaboratoroftheThomasdeAquinoByzantinusresearchproject(2007–).
HisinterestsincludeChristianLiterature,andGreekandLatinMedievalPhilosophy.Currently,heis
workingontheEditioPrincepsoftheGreekTranslationofThomasAquinas’SummaTheologiaeIaIIae
byDemetriusCydonesanditsincompleteCompendiumbyBessarion.
Irini Balcoyiannopoulou is a doctoral student at the Department of Education, University of Pa-
tras,Greece.ThetitleofherongoingdissertationisTheLogicalHandbooksofGeorgeScholarios-
GennadiosII:Method,SourcesandInnovations.HerresearchinterestsfocusonthereceptionofLatin
philosophicalthoughtinlateByzantium,mainlyitsphilologicalandhistoricalaspect.Since2014,
sheisamemberoftheThomasdeAquinoByzantinusresearchproject.
Marie-HélèneBlanchet,PhD,isaresearchfellowatCNRS(UMR8167OrientetMéditerranée,Monde
byzantin)inParis.HerresearchfocusesontheintellectualandreligioushistoryoftheByzantineEm-
pireduringthePalaiologanperiod(13th–15thcenturies).Amongotherworks,sheistheauthorof
GeorgesGennadiosScholarios(vers1400–vers1472):unintellectuelorthodoxefaceàladisparition
del’Empirebyzantin(Paris2008),andThéodoreAgallianos,DialogueavecunmoinecontrelesLatins
(1442)(Paris2013).SheisworkingonthreecriticaleditionswithintheThomasdeAquinoByzantinus
project,thetwoGreektranslationsofAquinas’Derationibusfidei,andtwoworksbyMatthewAngelos
Panaretos.
JohnA.DemetracopoulosisAssistantProfessorofPhilosophyandTheologyattheDepartmentofEd-
ucation,UniversityofPatras,Greece.HismainscholarlyinterestsareGreekandLatinMedievalphi-
losophyandtheology,withanemphasisonthephilologicalevidenceoftheGreek-Latinphilosoph-
icalandtheologicalinteractionintheLateMiddleAgesandthepost-Byzantineera.Heisthedirec-
toroftheThomasdeAquinoByzantinusinternationalresearchproject(2007–),currentlysponsored
bytheStavrosNiarchosFoundation.Heistheauthorofnumerousscholarlypublications,including
themonographἈπὸτὴνἱστορίατοῦβυζαντινοῦθωμισμοῦΠλήθωνκαὶΘωμᾶςἈκυινάτης(Plethonand
ThomasAquinas,Athens2004),andtheforthcomingTheChristianPlatonismofBarlaamtheCal-
abrian:InSearchoftheTheologicalandPhilosophicalSourcesofHisGreekEpistles.
PantelisGolitsisisAssistantProfessorofAncientandMedievalPhilosophyattheAristotleUniversity
ofThessaloniki.HeistheauthorofLesCommentairesdeSimpliciusetdeJeanPhiloponàlaPhysique
d'Aristote.Traditionetinnovation(Berlin&NewYork,2008;PrixZographosdel'Associationpour
l'encouragementdesÉtudesGrecquesenFrance),ofaModernGreektranslationandcommentary
ofAristotle’sProgressionofAnimalsandMotionofAnimals(Athens,2017),andofseveralarticles
onancientandByzantinephilosophy.HecurrentlyworksonanewcriticaleditionofAlexanderof
Aphrodisias’commentaryonAristotle’sMetaphysics.
BrianM.JensenisAssociateProfessorofLatinandamemberoftheArsedendiresearchprogrammeat
theDepartmentofRomanceStudiesandClassicsatStockholmUniversity.Hismainfieldsofresearch
includemedievalLatinliturgyandhagiography,theRuleofStBenedict,thespeechesofCicero,and
thefablegenre.Hehaspublishednumerousworksontropes,sequencesandhagiography.Hislatest
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publicationsareTheStoryofJustinaandCyprianofAntiochastoldinaMedievalLectionaryfrom
Piacenza(Stockholm2012)andtheeditioprincepsofLectionariumPlacentinum.EditionofaTwelfth
CenturyLectionaryfortheDivineOfficeI-IV(Florence2016–17).
Rev.Dr.ChristiaanKappesistheacademicdeanandprofessorofdogmaticsoftheByzantineCatholic
SeminaryofSs.CyrilandMethodius(Pittsburgh).HisresearchisfocusedontheGreekreceptionof
Scholasticisminthefourteenthandfifteenthcenturies,especiallyTrinitariantheology,liturgiology
andMariology.HeisworkingonTheEpiclesisDebate:MarkofEphesusandJohnTorquemada,OP,
attheCouncilofFlorence1439forNotreDameUniversityPress,andonhisdoctoralthesisTheThe-
ologyoftheDivineEssenceandEnergiesinGeorge-GennadiosScholarios(atAristotleUniversityin
Thessaloniki).
MichailKonstantinou-RizosstudiedattheNationalandKapodistrianUniversityofAthensandpur-
suedhisdoctoralstudiesattheRoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon,wherehehasrecentlydefended
hisPhDthesis: AneditionofProchorosCydones'(ca.1330–1369/71)unpublishedGreektranslationof
ThomasAquinas' Quaestionesdisputataedepotentia and Quaestiodisputatadespiritualibuscrea-
turis.Heisamemberofthe ThomasdeAquinoByzantinus researchproject.
AntoineLevy,PhDisaDominicanpriestandvice-directorofStudiumCatholicuminHelsinki,Finland
wherehemovedafterundergraduatestudiesatSorbonneParis-IVandENS(StCloud)aswellasgrad-
uatestudiesatSorbonneParis-IVandinItaly(PontificiàUniversitàSanTommasod’Aquino)anddoc-
toralstudiesattheUniversityofFribourginSwitzerland.Heisanadjunctprofessoroftheologyatthe
UniversityofHelsinkiandaprofessorofRussianIdeasandReligionsattheUniversityofEasternFin-
land.AmonghispublicationsisthemonographLecrééetl'incréé:MaximeleConfesseuretThomas
d'Aquin:auxsourcesdelaquerellepalamienne(Paris2006).
Sergei Mariev is an Associate Professor at the Institut für Byzantinistik, Byzantinische Kunst-
geschichte und Neogräzistik of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He completed his
BAinClassicsandClassicalCivilizationatBrighamYoungUniversity,Utah,USAin1996,andlater
receivedhisMaster(2002)andPh.D.(2005)inClassics,ByzantineStudiesandLatinPhilologyofthe
MiddleAgesfromLMUMunich.HisHabilitationsschriftwiththetitleÄsthetischeTheorieninByzanz
(2013)exploresthereceptionoftheNeoplatonictheoriesofbeautyandthedevelopmentofimage
theoryinByzantium.AmonghisotherrecentworksareBessarion:ÜberNaturundKunst(Hamburg
2015),andIoannisAntiochenifragmentaquaesupersuntomnia(Berlin2008).Heisthefounderand
editor-in-chiefofByzantinischesArchiv–SeriesPhilosophica.
JohnMonfasaniisaDistinguishedProfessorEmeritusoftheUniversityatAlbany,StateUniversityof
NewYork.HereceivedhisBAatFordhamUniversityin1965andhisdoctorateinhistoryunderEugene
F.Rice,Jr.,andPaulOskarKristelleratColumbiaUniversityin1973.Hisspecialfieldsofinteresthave
beenRenaissanceHumanismandByzantineémigréstoRenaissanceItaly.Hehaspublishedalmost
ahundredarticlestodateandfourteenbooks,withcriticaleditionsofGeorgeofTrebizond’sCompa-
ratioPhilosophorumPlatonisetAristotelisandProtectioProblematumAristotelisforthcoming.
TikhonPinoisaPhDCandidateatMarquetteUniversityinMilwaukee,Wisconsin,USA.Hehaspub-
lishedarticlesonhylomorphictheoryinAristotleandPlotinus,ontheTrinitariantheologyofMaxi-
mostheConfessorandBonaventure,andonthemetaphysicsofPhiloofAlexandria.Heiscurrently