Colonizing Christianity

Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade

George E. Demacopoulos (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2019
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-8443-6 (ISBN)

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Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. It argues that the experience colonization splintered the Greek community, which could not agree how best to respond to the Latin other.

Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. Through close readings of texts from the period of Latin occupation, this book argues that the experience of colonization splintered the Greek community over how best to respond to the Latin other while illuminating the mechanisms by which Western Christians authorized and exploited the Christian East. The experience of colonial subjugation opened permanent fissures within the Orthodox community, which struggled to develop a consistent response to aggressive demands for submission to the Roman Church.

George E. Demacopoulos is Fr. John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of four monographs, most recently The Invention of Peter: Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity and Gregory the Great: Ascetic Pastor and First-Man of Rome. With Aristotle Papanikolaou, he co-founded the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University. He presently serves as co-editor of the Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies.

Introduction 1

1. Robert de Clari 13

2. Gunther of Pairis’s Hystoria Constantinopolitana 35

3. Innocent’s Ambivalence 49

4. Demetrios Chomatianos: Colonial Resistance and the Fear of Sacramental Miscegenation 73

5. George Akropolites and the Counterexample(s) 89

6. The Chronicle of Morea 103

Conclusion 123

Acknowledgments 131

Notes 133

Index 177

Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2019
Reihe/Serie	Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-8232-8443-3 / 0823284433
ISBN-13	978-0-8232-8443-6 / 9780823284436
Zustand	Neuware