The acts of the Council of Constantinople of 869-70 / translated by Richard Price ; with an introduction and notes by Federico Montinaro.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Price, Richard, 1947 December 10- translator.

Montinaro, Federico, writer of introduction.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Conference Name:

Council of Constantinople (4th : 869-870 : Constantinople), author.

Series:

Translated texts for historians ; v. 79.

Translated texts for historians ; volume 79

Standardized Title:

Gesta sanctæ ac universalis octavae synodi quae Constantinopoli congregata est. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources.

Church history.

Church history--Middle Ages--Sources.

Council of Constantinople--(4th : 869-870 : Constantinople).

Council of Constantinople.

Photius I, Saint, Patriarch of Constantinople, approximately 820-approximately 891.

Photius.

Physical Description:

viii, 504 pages : maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

Translated from the Latin.

Summary:

The Council of Constantinople of 869-70 was highly dramatic, with its trial and condemnation of Patriarch Photius, a towering figure in the Byzantium of his day, and the tussle of wills at the council between the papal legates, the imperial representatives and the bishops. It was church politics and personalities rather than issues of doctrine, such as icon veneration, that dominated the debates. Out of all the acts of the great early councils, the acts of this council, of which this edition is the first modern translation, are the nearest to an accurate and complete record. Its protest against secular0interference in ecclesiastical elections was taken up later in the West and led to this council's being accorded full ecumenical status, although it had been repudiated in Byzantium soon after it was held. No early council expresses so vividly the tension between Rome's claim to supreme authority and the Byzantine reduction of this to a primacy of honour.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. The background

II. Before the Council

III. The course of the Council

IV. The aftermath and status of the Council

V. The message of the Council

VI. The text of the Acts

VII. The editions and the present translation

Text

Preface by Anastasius

Session I

Session II

Session III

Session IV

Session V

Session VI

Session VII

Session VIII

Session IX

Session X

Letters sent after the Council

Appendix

The papal letters in the proceedings

Bibliography

Abbreviations

Primary sources

Secondary literature

Maps

Indices of persons in the Acts

1. Bishops and higher clergy

2. Lower clergy and monks

3. Lay people.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-483) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1800856849

9781800856844

OCLC:

1273667309

Publisher Number:

99991279569