Orthodoxy and the Imperial Idea: The Transformation of the Orthodox Church in Late Byzantium
For those living in the East Roman Empire, it was God-protected, immune from the impermanence of other states. But in late Byzantium, intellectuals began to reconsider this assumption: could the East Roman Empire be vulnerable, even temporary? And what would that mean for the Orthodox Church? Through his engagement with influential intellectuals at the time, principally Philotheos Kokkinos, Demetrios Kydones, Cardinals Bessarion and Isidore, George Gemistos Plethon, Mark Eugenikos and George Scholarios, Norman Russell explores the strategies and responses to this seismic shift in the imagination and conceptualisation of the Church and the Empire. By exploring the details of such crucial events as the Hesychast Controversy, the ecclesiastical revolution that followed, and successive attempts to attain ecclesiastical union with the West, Norman Russell considers how the Orthodox Church adapted to survive and flourish under Ottoman rule. This is an important new contribution to the scholarship of the Orthodox Church in the Byzantine period, of interest to scholars of Byzantine civilisation, the East Roman Empire, and the Orthodox Church.
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Orthodoxy and the Imperial Idea: The Transformation of the Orthodox Church in Late Byzantium
For those living in the East Roman Empire, it was God-protected, immune from the impermanence of other states. But in late Byzantium, intellectuals began to reconsider this assumption: could the East Roman Empire be vulnerable, even temporary? And what would that mean for the Orthodox Church? Through his engagement with influential intellectuals at the time, principally Philotheos Kokkinos, Demetrios Kydones, Cardinals Bessarion and Isidore, George Gemistos Plethon, Mark Eugenikos and George Scholarios, Norman Russell explores the strategies and responses to this seismic shift in the imagination and conceptualisation of the Church and the Empire. By exploring the details of such crucial events as the Hesychast Controversy, the ecclesiastical revolution that followed, and successive attempts to attain ecclesiastical union with the West, Norman Russell considers how the Orthodox Church adapted to survive and flourish under Ottoman rule. This is an important new contribution to the scholarship of the Orthodox Church in the Byzantine period, of interest to scholars of Byzantine civilisation, the East Roman Empire, and the Orthodox Church.
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Orthodoxy and the Imperial Idea: The Transformation of the Orthodox Church in Late Byzantium

Orthodoxy and the Imperial Idea: The Transformation of the Orthodox Church in Late Byzantium

by Norman Russell
Orthodoxy and the Imperial Idea: The Transformation of the Orthodox Church in Late Byzantium

Orthodoxy and the Imperial Idea: The Transformation of the Orthodox Church in Late Byzantium

by Norman Russell

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For those living in the East Roman Empire, it was God-protected, immune from the impermanence of other states. But in late Byzantium, intellectuals began to reconsider this assumption: could the East Roman Empire be vulnerable, even temporary? And what would that mean for the Orthodox Church? Through his engagement with influential intellectuals at the time, principally Philotheos Kokkinos, Demetrios Kydones, Cardinals Bessarion and Isidore, George Gemistos Plethon, Mark Eugenikos and George Scholarios, Norman Russell explores the strategies and responses to this seismic shift in the imagination and conceptualisation of the Church and the Empire. By exploring the details of such crucial events as the Hesychast Controversy, the ecclesiastical revolution that followed, and successive attempts to attain ecclesiastical union with the West, Norman Russell considers how the Orthodox Church adapted to survive and flourish under Ottoman rule. This is an important new contribution to the scholarship of the Orthodox Church in the Byzantine period, of interest to scholars of Byzantine civilisation, the East Roman Empire, and the Orthodox Church.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780227178911
Publisher: James Clarke & Co. Ltd
Publication date: 02/27/2025
Pages: 258
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

About the Author

Norman Russell is an Orthodox translator and patristic scholar of partial Greek descent. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of St Stephen's House of the University of Oxford and Professor of Patristics and Byzantine Theology of the Istituto Teologico 'Santa Eufemia di Calcedonia' of the Orthodox Exarchate of Italy. He has published two books on Gregory Palamas and a number of articles exploring Orthodoxy in the fourteenth century.

Table of Contents

Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Strategies of Religious and Cultural Survival 1. The Recovery of Constantinople from the Latins 2. The Ecclesiastical Revolution of 1347 3. Political Hesychasm: Philotheos Kokkinos and His Successors 4. Siren Voices: Demetrios and Prochoros Kydones 5. Salvation through Philosophy: Nikephoros Gregoras and George Gemistos Plethon 6. Apostles of Union: Cardinals Bessarion and Isidore 7. Opponents of Union: Mark Eugenikos and George Scholarios 8. Orthodoxy on the Eve of Imperial Collapse
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