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Panoplia Dogmatike - a study on the antiheretical anthology of Euthymios Zygadenos in the Post-Byzantine Periode. History of the first publication in Greek in 1710 and edition of fragments with scholia on Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite and Gregory of Naz KU Leuven
The thesis deals with Panoplia Dogmatike, an anthology of Patristic texts complied at the beginning of the twelfth century by the renowned Constantinopolitan theologian Euthymios Zygadenos. The creation of the anthology was personally initiated by Emperor Alexios Komnenos (1081-1118) and was related with the religious politics of the Byzantine Empire. In the history of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, this anthology remained an important ...
City of Gods: The New Jerusalem of John’s Revelation in Early Christianity (through ca. 313) KU Leuven
The New Jerusalem (NJ) is an image that emerged within the Hebrew Scriptures, developed in the intertestamental period, and was expanded upon to dramatic effect in the Apocalypse and elsewhere in the New Testament. In the time since, it has become a persistent and powerful religious, political, literary, and artistic topos within the Western cultural heritage. At its heart, the image of the NJ and its cognates (e.g. the heavenly Jerusalem) has ...
The Fruitful Vineyard of Prayer. A Critical Edition of the Anthologium gnomicum by Elias Ekdikos (CPG 7716) KU Leuven
This project further develops previous research conducted at the Institute for Early Christian and Byzantine Studies (Leuven) on Byzantine encyclopaedism, which concludes that the term ‘encyclopaedia’ should be abandoned in favour of that of ‘compilation’ or ‘collection’. The project narrows the focus to a particular kind of compilation literature: theological collections of small chapters or capita grouped into larger entities. This genre is ...
Digitizing the Ancient Versions of the Apostolic Fathers: Preliminary Considerations KU Leuven
This contribution offers a reflection on digitizing the Ancient Translations of the Apostolic Fathers (AnTrAF). This corpus contains an interesting sample of early Christian texts, originally written in Greek, which is most relevant for our understanding of Early Christianity. The versions, interesting and varied as they may be, have received considerably less attention. These translations display quite a complex picture that deserves a ...
Francesco Filelfo’s “Consolatio ad Iacobum Antonium Marcellum de obitu Valerii filii”. Text and Context KU Leuven
When on the first of January 1461 Jacopo Antonio Marcello's eight-year-old son Valerio died, prominent humanists produced consoling essays and poems for the boy's father. The most important of these writings was Francesco Filelfo's "Consolatio ad Iacobum Antonium Marcellum de obitu Valerii filii" ("Consolation of J.A. Marcello on the death of his son Valerio"), a consolation of more than 30,000 words, which combines portraits of and panegyrics ...
Le texte et les paratextes dans le livre de l'Échelle de Jean du Sinaï: construction de l'image de l'échelle et tradition manuscrite KU Leuven
The study on the ladder as the way to perfection are based on the pagan and Christian texts between the 3rd and the 7th century AD, especially on the ascetic treatise named the Ladder of Divine Ascent, composed by John Cimacus. It would be necessary to compare the gradation of the virtues of the Neoplatonists with the patristic exegesis of Jacob's vision of the ladder; to show the complexity of spiritual progression (three dimensions: vertical, ...
Introduction KU Leuven
Questions sur les deux arbres du paradis : la lettre Ξ du Florilège Coislin KU Leuven
© 2014 by Byzantion. All rights reserved. This article contains the editio princeps of the Letter ? of the Florilegium Coislinianum, an anthology of the 9thor early 10thcentury, which has been transmitted in three different recensions (as well as a mixed one). The Letter ? of the alphabetically arranged florilegium contains three chapters, each of which consists of one or more excerpts: this adds up to a total of nine fragments, taken from ...