Byzantine Orthodoxies: Papers from the Thirty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23û25 March 2002

by Casiday,Augustine; Louth,Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780754654964
• ISBN10: 0754654966
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
List of Abbreviations	xi
List of Illustrations	xiii
Introduction	1	(14)
Andrew Louth
Section I Defining orthodoxy
The question of Nicene Orthodoxy	15	(12)
John Behr
Gregory of Nazianzus as the authoritative voice of Orthodoxy in the sixth century	27	(8)
Caroline Mace
Theotokos---Diadochos	35	(20)
Dirk Krausmiller
Methodios and his synod	55	(20)
Patricia Karlin-Hayter
Prochoros Cydones and the fourteenth-century understanding of Orthodoxy	75	(20)
Norman Russell
Section II Orthodoxy in art and liturgy
In the beginning was the Word: Art and Orthodoxy at the Councils of Trullo (692) and Nicaea II (787)	95	(8)
Leslie Brubaker
... and the Word was with God ... What makes Art Orthodox?	103	(8)
Liz James
... and the Word was God: Art and Orthodoxy in Late Byzantium	111	(10)
Robin Cormack
The British Museum Triumph of Orthodoxy icon	121	(10)
Dimitra Kotoula
Medieval Byzantine chant and the sound of Orthodoxy	131	(20)
Alexander Lingas
Byzantine hymns of hate	151	(16)
Archimandrite Ephrem
Section III Orthodoxy and the other
Can we speak of Jewish Orthodoxy in Byzantium?	167	(12)
Nicholas de Lange
The Apostolic Foundation Stone: the conception of Orthodoxy in the controversy between Photius of Constantinople and Isaac Surnamed Mrut	179	(20)
Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev
The Orthodoxy of the Latins in the twelfth century	199	(16)
Tia M. Kolbaba
Epilogue
Some constant characteristics of Byzantine Orthodoxy	215	(14)
Sergei Averintsev
Index	229