Series | Alterum Byzantium
Volume 4 | Edited book | Arsenals for the Guardians of Orthodoxy
Arsenals for the Guardians of Orthodoxy
The Komnenian Panoplies
open access-
edited by
- Alessandra Bucossi - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - email
- Antonio Rigo - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - email
- Niccolò Zorzi - University of Padua - email
Abstract
This volume marks a fundamental turning point in the study of the three major Byzantine anti-heretical compilations produced during the ‘long twelfth century’, Euthymios Zigabenos’ Panoplia Dogmatica, Andronikos Kamateros’ Sacrum Armamentarium and Niketas Choniates’ Panoplia Dogmatica. The three works, which have not yet been critically edited, are presented together for the first time in a collected volume that analyses in detail their contents, the motivations and purposes of their production, the relationships to the sources used and the different methods of composition. The comparative analysis of the three panoplies, conducted here for the first time, opens up new avenues for research on the relationship between the works, the aims of the patrons and authors, and the role of these compilations in the reconstruction of Byzantine society and culture between the 12th and early 13th centuries. The volume is is enriched by the collaboration of scholars who have already made significant contributions to the study of the three works and their authors. This study received funding from the European Union Next-GenerationEU - National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) – Mission 4 Component 2, Investment 1.1 Fondo per il Programma Nazionale di Ricerca e Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN) – CUP N. H53D23009250001, within the project “Panoplia Panopliarum - The long twelfth century: the Byzantine age of anti-heretical compilations (P2022FCX7J)”.
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