Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes: Eastern Influences on Rome and the Papacy from Gregory the Great to Zacharias, A.D. 590-752Lexington Books, 26 հնվ, 2007 թ. - 358 էջ Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes examines the scope and extent to which the East influenced Rome and the Papacy following the Justinian Reconquest of Italy in the middle of the sixth century through the pontificate of Zacharias and the collapse of the exarchate of Ravenna in 752. A combination of factors resulted in the arrival of significant numbers of easterners in Rome, and those immigrants had brought with them a number of eastern customs and practices previously unknown in the city. Greek influence became apparent in art, religious ceremonial and liturgics, sacred music, the rhetoric of doctrinal debate, the growth of eastern monastic communities, and charitable institutions, and the proliferation of the cults of eastern saints and ecclesiastical feast days and, in particular, devotion to the Theotokos or Mother of God. From the late seventh to the middle of the eighth century, eleven of the thirteen Roman pontiffs were the sons of families of eastern provenance. While conceding that over the course of the seventh century Rome indeed experienced the impact of an important Greek element, some scholars of the period have insisted that the degree to which Rome and the Papacy were 'orientalized' has been exaggerated, while others argue that the extent of their 'byzantinization' has not been fully appreciated. The question has also been raised as to whether Rome's oriental popes were responsible for sowing the seeds of separatism from Byzantium and laying the foundation for a future papal state, or whether they were loyal imperial subjects ever steadfast politically, although not always so in matters of the faith, to the reigning sovereign in Constantinople. Finally, there is the important issue of whether one could still speak of a single and undivided imperium Roman christianum in the seventh and early eighth centuries or whether the concept of imperial unity in the epoch following Gregory the Great was a quaint and fanciful fiction as East and West, ignoring and misunderstanding one another, began to go their separate ways. Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes provides a guide through this complicated and often contradictory history. |
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... empire had not extirpated the undercurrent of suspicion and even disdain that still flowed between Latin West and Greek East.11 Nor had the Justinianic reconquest of Italy effaced it. The discontented citizens of Rome pe~ titioned the ...
... empire had not extirpated the undercurrent of suspicion and even disdain that still flowed between Latin West and Greek East.11 Nor had the Justinianic reconquest of Italy effaced it. The discontented citizens of Rome pe~ titioned the ...
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... Empire to its ancient grandeur had resulted in disaster and desolation for the Italian penin~ sula.21 Time and again Rome was besieged. Death, starvation, and famine were commonplace.22 If the city was not suffering from Gothic ...
... Empire to its ancient grandeur had resulted in disaster and desolation for the Italian penin~ sula.21 Time and again Rome was besieged. Death, starvation, and famine were commonplace.22 If the city was not suffering from Gothic ...
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... Empire,“4 the Byzantine administration relegated Italy to the status of a “remote backwater, the North~West Frontier of a beleaguered empire.”45 By 602, the Roman senate had lost whatever power and prestige it had and ceased to meet.46 ...
... Empire,“4 the Byzantine administration relegated Italy to the status of a “remote backwater, the North~West Frontier of a beleaguered empire.”45 By 602, the Roman senate had lost whatever power and prestige it had and ceased to meet.46 ...
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... empire needed to prepare itself for a prolonged struggle. The Byzantines had come to the conclusion that their best course of action was to consolidate the positions they presently occupied in such a way as to assure access between Rome ...
... empire needed to prepare itself for a prolonged struggle. The Byzantines had come to the conclusion that their best course of action was to consolidate the positions they presently occupied in such a way as to assure access between Rome ...
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... empire's heart from two directions, neither Tiberius, nor Maurice after him, was likely to be overly concerned with the Lombards in the west. In effect, Rome and Italy were largely on their own.109 If Gregory's principal task was to ...
... empire's heart from two directions, neither Tiberius, nor Maurice after him, was likely to be overly concerned with the Lombards in the west. In effect, Rome and Italy were largely on their own.109 If Gregory's principal task was to ...
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Chapter 3 Diligo Romanos ut Unam Habentes Fidem Graecos Autem ut Eadem Qua Ego Lingua Loquentes | 79 |
Chapter 4 Reverendissimi Abbates Presbyteri nec Non Monachi Introeant | 113 |
Chapter 5 The Italian Expedition of Constans II | 158 |
Chapter 6 Et Dicit Acolitus Symbolum Graece Decantando in His Verbis | 199 |
Chapter 7 Eastern Influences on Rome and Papacy from Sergius I to Zacharias 701752 | 244 |
Epilogue Zacharias Son of Polychronios | 298 |
Bibliography | 304 |
Index | 335 |
About the Author | 347 |
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