CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Daniel, Cristian-Nicolae |
|---|---|
| Title | Coping with the Powerful Other: A Comparative Approach to Greek-Slavonic Communities of Rite in Late Medieval Transylvania and the Banat |
| Summary | The aim of this dissertation has been to analyze the history of the communities of Greek- Slavonic rite in Transylvania by comparing them with other Greek rite communities in regions that I chose to call transitional regions. The timeframe for this research stretches from the first conquest of Constantinople (1204), the fourth Lateran Council (1215), via the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1438–9) to the Council of Trent (1545–63) and witnessed the structural development of the Greek-Slavonic rite in Transylvania. By evaluating the existing evidence for late medieval Transylvania with comparable information available in the sources (the vast majority of which were produced by the Latins) I have laid the basis for a typology of the Greek-Slavonic rite communities in such regions. This was a necessary undertaking in order to expand the knowledge on how these communities functioned. My study points out both the differences and the similarities between these regions at the level of the ecclesial life of the local Greek rite communities (with a focus on Transylvania, Crete, and Cyprus, and with more occasional references to the situation in southern Italy, the Crusader States and the lands inhabited by the Ruthenians) and analyzes the special conditions for the Greek-Slavonic rite in Transylvania. Understanding the place of the Greek-Slavonic rite in medieval Transylvania required assessing the impact of high Church politics, the way the local ecclesiastical and aristocratic elites reacted to changes in Church policy, and the manner in which the “Orthodox” themselves were perceived when living in a “Catholic” environment, before the time of confessionalism. |
| Supervisor | Gaul, Niels |
| Department | Medieval Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/mphdac01.pdf |
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