The Canons of the Quinisext Council (691/2)
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-78962-813-5 (ISBN)
These canons (or rules) for church organization and life and Christian
morals issued at a council held in Constantinople in 691/2 form the foundation
of Byzantine Canon Law. They show an intense concern to restore the proper
discipline of clerical life after the chaos brought about by the Arab
invasions. The rules for the laity show a concern to secure obedience to the
Church’s rules about marriage, proper respect for sacred space, and the suppression
of customs of pagan origin. Particular interest attaches to the canons that express
disapproval of certain customs of the Western Church and of the Armenian
Church. Was this an attempt to impose Byzantine hegemony, or simply a revulsion
at customs that seemed wrong? The Byzantine emperor tried repeatedly to get the
Pope to give the new canons the stamp of his approval; his failure marks an
important stage in the mounting divergence between the Greek and the Roman Churches.
The translation is accompanied by full annotation, while the introduction sets the
council in its historical context, in both the history of the early medieval
world and the development of Eastern Canon Law.
Richard Price is Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity, Heythrop College and Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London. His many previous publications include The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649 (with P. Booth & C. Cubitt, Liverpool 2014), The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (Liverpool 2018), The Council of Ephesus of 431 (with T. Graumann, Liverpool 2020), Canons of the Quinisext Council (691/2) (Liverpool 2020) and The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 869-70 (with Federico Montinaro, Liverpool 2022).
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Council and its Setting
2. Eastern Canon Law and the Quinisext Council
3. The Message of the Canons
4. Justinian II and Armenia
5.The Roman Reaction
6. Later Reception in East and West
7. Manuscripts and Editions
Date List of Canons, AD 314-870
The Headings of the Quinisext Canons
List of the Quinisext Canons in Thematic Sequence
The Conciliar Acts: Translation and Commentary
The Address to the Emperor
The Canons
The Subscriptions
Bibliography
Maps
Indices
1. Texts cited in the Acts
2. The Introduction
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.11.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Translated Texts for Historians ; 74 |
| Zusatzinfo | 4 Maps |
| Verlagsort | Liverpool |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 147 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78962-813-X / 178962813X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78962-813-5 / 9781789628135 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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