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Documenting the Challenges of the Late Antique Miaphysite Church
Series: - Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, Volume: 41
The earliest history of the miaphysite church is extraordinarily rich in documents. This volume asks why and how the Miaphysite Church produced such an extraordinary theological, canonical and historical documentation? In order to make these collections more accessible for future historians, contributors study the make-up of the collections, the images that they project, their transmission and translation, and what kind of information they provide for modern historians.
Philippe Blaudeau, former member of École Française de Rome, is a senior member of Institut Universitaire de France and Professor of Roman History at the University of Angers (TEMOS UMR 9016 CNRS). His research focuses on geo-ecclesiology during Late Antiquity. Peter Van Nuffelen is Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University, Belgium. The recipient of two ERC grants, he works on the history of religion, historiography and political thought of Late Antiquity and the first millennium.
Notes on Contributors VII
Introduction
Philippe Blaudeau
Part 1 Relying on Founding or Referral Authorities
1 The “Last Pharaoh’s” Afterlife: Patriarch Dioscorus’ Sanctification in the Non-Chalcedonian Ecclesiastical Tradition
Volker Menze
2 British Library Add. 12,156 and the Creation of Timothy Aelurus as an Orthodox Post-Chalcedonian Bishop
Edward Watts
3 Talking about Christology during the War: Trans-Imperial Christian Affiliations at the Turn of the 6th Century
Muriel Debié
4 Establishing Authorities for the Miaphysite Churches: a Case Study on a Collection of Severus of Antioch’s Letters to the Noblewoman Caesaria
Philip Michael Forness
Part 2 Using Resources to Enrich and Justify New Apologetic and Polemical Arguments
5 Two Writings Preserved in Coptic against the Council of Chalcedon
The Apophthegma de Incarnatione and the Homily Contra Concilium Chalcedonense
Costanza Bianchi
6 Translating Severus (VIth–VIIIth c.): Process and Purposes of the Transfer of Severus of Antioch’s Writings into Syriac
Frédéric Alpi
7 In the Pipeline of a “Working Library”. The Historiographical Excerpts of MS BL Add. 12,154
Georgia Nicosia
8 The Incurable Wound. The Controversy Surrounding Probus (Sixth Century) as a Perpetual Disquiet in Miaphysite History
Emiliano Bronislaw Fiori
Part 3 Selecting Supporting Documents and Vocabulary to Develop Major Identity Narratives
9 Recognising Rhetoric: Using the Syriac Dossiers to Re-read John of Ephesus
Philip Wood
10 The Patriarch’s Voice in Stereo. Documents in the History of Dionysius of Tell-Mahre
Peter Van Nuffelen
11 Der ‚Aphthartodoketismus‘ Justinians: Quellenprobleme und historische Kontexte
Mischa Meier
Conclusions
Peter Van Nuffelen
Index of Ancient Sources
General Index
Introduction
Philippe Blaudeau
Part 1 Relying on Founding or Referral Authorities
1 The “Last Pharaoh’s” Afterlife: Patriarch Dioscorus’ Sanctification in the Non-Chalcedonian Ecclesiastical Tradition
Volker Menze
2 British Library Add. 12,156 and the Creation of Timothy Aelurus as an Orthodox Post-Chalcedonian Bishop
Edward Watts
3 Talking about Christology during the War: Trans-Imperial Christian Affiliations at the Turn of the 6th Century
Muriel Debié
4 Establishing Authorities for the Miaphysite Churches: a Case Study on a Collection of Severus of Antioch’s Letters to the Noblewoman Caesaria
Philip Michael Forness
Part 2 Using Resources to Enrich and Justify New Apologetic and Polemical Arguments
5 Two Writings Preserved in Coptic against the Council of Chalcedon
The Apophthegma de Incarnatione and the Homily Contra Concilium Chalcedonense
Costanza Bianchi
6 Translating Severus (VIth–VIIIth c.): Process and Purposes of the Transfer of Severus of Antioch’s Writings into Syriac
Frédéric Alpi
7 In the Pipeline of a “Working Library”. The Historiographical Excerpts of MS BL Add. 12,154
Georgia Nicosia
8 The Incurable Wound. The Controversy Surrounding Probus (Sixth Century) as a Perpetual Disquiet in Miaphysite History
Emiliano Bronislaw Fiori
Part 3 Selecting Supporting Documents and Vocabulary to Develop Major Identity Narratives
9 Recognising Rhetoric: Using the Syriac Dossiers to Re-read John of Ephesus
Philip Wood
10 The Patriarch’s Voice in Stereo. Documents in the History of Dionysius of Tell-Mahre
Peter Van Nuffelen
11 Der ‚Aphthartodoketismus‘ Justinians: Quellenprobleme und historische Kontexte
Mischa Meier
Conclusions
Peter Van Nuffelen
Index of Ancient Sources
General Index
This book targets academic institutions, scholars and graduate students who are working on ancient Christianity, the Medieval Middle East and more particularly historical, theological and canonical sources of the Miaphysite Churches and shaping impact from 6th to 9th centuries.