The Reception of John Chrysostom in early modern Europe: translating and reading a Greek church father from 1417 to 1624 /

346 Pages·2.953 MB·English

by  Sam Kennerley.

SamKennerley
TheReceptionofJohnChrysostominEarlyModernEurope
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Contents
Abbreviations XI
Part 1:Introduction
1 Introduction 3
Part 2:Fromlateantiquityto theItalian Renaissance
1 ThetransmissionandtranslationofChrysostomduringlate
antiquitytheMiddleAges 11
1.1 ApottedbiographyofJohnChrysostom 11
1.2 Fromthefourthtothesixthcentury:Theearliestperiod
ofreception 12
1.3 Fromthesixthtotheninthcentury:Theoldestmanuscripts
ofChrysostom 21
1.4 Fromtheninthtotheeleventhcentury:Thereception
ofChrysostominByzantiumduringthe‘Macedonian
Renaissance’ 26
1.5 Fromthetwelfthtothefifteenthcentury:The‘twelfth-century
Renaissance’andafter 29
1.6 Conclusion:Thestateofaffairsupto1417 34
2 AmbrogioTraversari:TranslatingChrysostominearlyRenaissance
Florence 36
2.1 AmbrogioTraversari’stranslationsofChrysostom 36
2.2 TraversariandcontemporaryByzantinescholarship 44
3 JohnChrysostominlateByzantineandpost-Byzantinepatristic
scholarship 47
3.1 ChrysostominByzantinepatristicscholarshipatCouncil
ofFerrara-Florence 47
3.2 ChrysostomandtheconsensusoftheFathersintheGreek
worldaftertheCouncilofFerrara-Florence 54
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4 TranslationsofJohnChrysostominRenaissanceRomefromNicholasV
(1447–1455)toSixtusIV(1471–1484) 62
4.1 ThefoundationoftheVaticanLibrary,anditscollection
ofGreekmanuscriptsofChrysostom 62
4.2 TwoGreektranslatorsofJohnChrysostom:George
ofTrebizondandTheodoreGaza 65
4.3 TranslationsofChrysostombyLatinscholars,1450–1484.
1:PietroBalbi 76
4.4 TranslationsofChrysostombyLatinscholars,1450–1484.
2:FrancescoGriffolini 82
4.5 TranslationsofChrysostombyLatinscholars,1450–1484.
3:Tortelli,Lippi,Brenta,Persona,Valentini,Lando,and
Selling 93
4.6 ReadingChrysostomintheItalianRenaissance:Theexample
ofJeanJouffroy 96
5 ThefirstprintededitionsofJohnChrysostom,c.1466–1504 105
5.1 IncunabulaeditionsofChrysostom 105
5.2 ThefirstOperaomnia:1503(Venice)and1504(Basel) 111
Part 3:Thepolitics ofpatristicscholarshipin Reformation
Basel: Erasmus,his friends,andtheir enemies
1 Newtexts,newquestions,andanewinterpretationofPaul 121
2 ThepoliticsofpatristicscholarshipinReformationBasel 131
3 Erasmusinexile:The1530and1536Operaomnia 151
4 Erasmus’sLifeofJohnChrysostom 163
4.1 ChrysostomusalterPaulus 163
4.2 Thestudyofspuria 175
Contents IX
Part 4:Patristicscholarshipin anage
ofconfessionalisation
1 Confessionalisationandscholarship:Settingthescene 185
2 TestingandignoringconfessionalisationinBrescia,Basel,
andParis:1536–1547 188
2.1 Experimentsinconfessionalisationineditionsprinted
between1536and1539 188
2.2 Aconfessionalorcommercialrivalry?TheOperaomniaof
Paris(1543)andBasel(1547) 193
3 AnItalianinterlude:1548–1554 202
4 Arivalryrenewed:TheOperaomniaof1556(Paris),1558(Basel),
and1570(Paris) 214
5 CensoringandtranslatingChrysostominItaly,theLowCountries,
andFrance,1571–1585 228
5.1 TheplaceoftheChurchFathersintheRomanindexbetween
thedeathofMarcelloCervini(1555)andtheestablishmentof
theCongregationoftheIndex(1571) 228
5.2 SuppressingandsupportingscholarshipinBolognaand
Antwerp 235
5.3 PlansforaRomanOperaomniaofChrysostom 240
5.4 JacquesdeBillyandthe1581ParisOperaomnia 245
5.5 Assessingtheimpactofconfessionalisationandcensorship
onpatristicsbetween1571and1585 249
6 Education,collaboration,andconfession:1585–1624 252
6.1 Educationandconfession:PrintingChrysostomforthe
classroom 252
6.2 Collaborationandconfession.1:JérômeCommelinandhis
successors 259
6.3 Collaborationandconfession.2:HenrySavile’searlyplans
foraGreekeditionofChrysostom,andtheresponseof
FrontonduDuc 266
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6.4 Collaborationandconfession.3:HenrySavilecompleteshis
edition,withhelpfromFrontonduDuc 272
6.5 Conclusion 278
Part 5:Generalconclusion
Generalconclusion 283
1 Expansion,change,ordevelopment? 283
2 WhytheearlymodernreceptionofChrysostomstillmatters.
1:Theongoingsignificanceofearlymoderneditionstothe
GreektextofChrysostom 285
3 WhytheearlymodernreceptionofChrysostomstillmatters.
2:LatinisChrysostom’ssecondlanguage 286
4 WhytheearlymodernreceptionofChrysostomstillmatters.
3:Lossessincetheearlymodernperiod 288
5 WhytheearlymodernreceptionofChrysostomstillmatters.
4:Nooneeditioncananswereveryquestion 289
Bibliography 291
Images 317
Indices 319