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1 online resource (xx, 408 pages) |
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Oxford history of the Christian Church |
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Oxford history of the Christian Church.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
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Byzantine Empire Orthodox Eastern Church Role, 600-1453 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Orthodox Eastern Church -- Byzantine Empire
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Orthodox Eastern Church fast |
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Orthodox.
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Orthodoxe kerken.
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| SUBJECT |
Byzantine Empire -- Church history
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| Subject |
Byzantine Empire
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
85013821 |
| ISBN |
9780191520495 |
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0191520497 |
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9780191601170 |
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0191601179 |
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1282052160 |
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9781282052161 |
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9786612052163 |
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6612052163 |
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