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CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011

Author	Miladinova, Nadejda Vladimirova
Title	Panoplia Dogmatike - a study on the antiheretical anthology of Euthymios Zygadenos in the Post-Byzantine Period (With history of the first publication in Greek in 1710 and an edition of fragments with scholia on Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite and Gregory of Nazianzus from MS Iviron grec. 281)
Summary	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 as an important contribution in the systematization of the legacy of the Church Fathers and the cannon of texts which were used in the theological debates. The text gained considerable popularity with more than Greek 150 manuscripts and translations into Old Slavonic and Latin. The Panoplia consists of 28 chapters. Each of the initial seven chapters is dedicated to an important orthodox belief, while each of the following chapters refutes a major heresy in the history of the Church from the early Christian times until the twelfth century. The text is well known to the scholars dealing with Byzantium but has remained largely unexplored because of its length and monumental tradition. This thesis represents two episodes (loosely connected) in the transmission history of the anthology. The first section situates the Panoplia in the context of early modern Europe with the publication history of the first printed edition in Greek which happened in Wallachia in 1710. The dissertation proves that this edition was initiated by the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in relation to the proselytizing activities of the Catholics and the Protestants. The inner conflicts among the Orthodox Christians necessitated the edition and the publication was connected with the coeval Eucharistic debates, which had their origins in Western Europe but were interiorized on Orthodox soil. The second part treats one single manuscript – MS Iviron grec 281 -- which shows significant differences from the Wallachia edition and the other Panoplia manuscripts which I was able to consult. Compared to the edition, the Iviron MS omits many of the Patristic texts, but adds scholia to the fragments of Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite and the orations of Gregory the Theologian (Orationes 28, 29, 30, 31, 38). The present study gives a sample of these scholia: it treats the fragments of Gregory of Nazianzos’ De Theologia, Oratio 30 and In Theophania, Oratio 38 as well as the five short scholia to the Pseudo-Dionysian fragments. The sources on the scholia to the text of the Areopagite lead to Ambigua ad Thomam of Maximus the Confessor. For the rest of the scholia, I was able to identify most of them as fragments authored by Nicetas Heracleensis and Elias Cretensis, two among the most prominent commentators of the Theologian. These commentaries have remained unpublished until now.
Supervisor	Perczel, István; Van Deun, Peter
Department	Medieval Studies PhD
Full text	https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/mphmin01.pdf

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