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Heretics, Schismatics, or Catholics? Latin Attitudes to the Greeks in the Long Twelfth Century

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WhileabookonpoliticalanddiplomaticrelationsbetweentheByzantineEmpire
andtheLatinworldmightperhapsrequirejustificationorevenapology,asimilarexplanationforastudyof theLatinperceptionsofandattitudestowardthe
ByzantineEmpireintermsof religionwouldseemincongruousor,atbest,superfluous.Historiansconcurthatthepoliticaldivisionof theRomanworldintoLatin
WesternandGreekEasternRomanEmpiresattheendof thefourthcenturyled
toafundamentalanddeep-rooteddivergencebetweenthem.Accordingtothe
deeplyentrenchedbeliefthathasprevailedinmodernacademic,educational,
andpopularliterature,butwhichhasremainedlargelyunexamined,theresulting
religiousandculturalantagonismbetweenthetwopartsofmedievalChristen
domeventuallyproducedthe“schismof1054.”Lessthanfiftyyearsafter,Greeks
andLatinscameintoclosercontactasaresultof thecrusades:theencounterwas
disastrous,leadingtothecaptureandsackofConstantinoplein1204bythe
armiesoftheFourthCrusade.
Certainly,thisviewwasacommonplaceinuniversitytextbookswhenIwas
anundergraduatestudent.ButthesubjectofLatin-Greekrelationsfascinated
me,andIcontinuedtoexplorethetopicfurther.Asagraduatestudent,Iacquired
greaterfamiliarity withtheprimarysources,allthewhiletryingtointerpretthem
withintheintellectualframeworkIhadinherited.Itwasatthisstage,however,
thatIdiscoveredthatonlycertaintextsconformedtotheselong-established
views;othersrevealedaverydifferentpictureofLatinperceptionsofandattitudestowardtheGreeksintermsofreligion,andrequiredmorecareful,independent,andrigorousanalysis.Thiswork,whichbeganasalongresearcharticle
butrapidlyexpandedtoitscurrentsizewhenitbecameevidentthatonlyamore
extendedstudycoulddojusticetothewealthofevidenceIhaduncovered,isthe
result.

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Categories:

History - European History

Year:

2019

Publisher:

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Language:

english

Pages:

300

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