Die neue Edition der Akten des Nicaenum II: Reflexionen des Editors
The contribution presents some reflections on problems and questions whose solution or more detailed treatment was difficult within the framework of the new edition. Thus, it may become clear that the edition should not be the end but rather the starting point of further studying the Acts. The follo...
| Published in: | Konzilien und kanonisches Recht in Spätantike und frühem Mittelalter |
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| Subtitles: | Die neue Edition der Akten des Nicaenum II (787) |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | German |
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De Gruyter
2020
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Konzilien und kanonisches Recht in Spätantike und frühem Mittelalter
Year: 2020, Pages: 305-314 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Council 2. (787 : Nizäa)
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KCC Councils SB Catholic Church law |
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| Summary: | The contribution presents some reflections on problems and questions whose solution or more detailed treatment was difficult within the framework of the new edition. Thus, it may become clear that the edition should not be the end but rather the starting point of further studying the Acts. The following topics are addressed: 1. The materials presented in the edition may provide an impetus for further research into the texts and documents cited in the Acts with regard to their original version and their possible transformation or interpolation prior to their inclusion in the Acts. As an example, the alleged letter of Basil of Caesarea to the Emperor Iulian (epist. 360) is subjected here to a more detailed analysis. 2. An in-depth examination of the later Greek and Latin tradition of the Acts in the 15th–17th centuries will hardly reveal important new variants that would require changes to the text of the new edition. However, it may lead to better insights into the further dissemination of the Acts, especially during the Councils of Ferrara / Florence and Trento, and it may not only contribute to the history of the reception of the Council, but also to the history of libraries and scholars. 3. A thorough documentation and evaluation of the rich manuscript tradition of the Greek canonical collections, into which a certain number of texts of the Acts have been incorporated, was impossible in preparing the edition of the large bulk of the Acts of the Council. Therefore, a representative selection of manuscripts was made and their relationship to each other and to the direct transmission of the Acts was examined. The task of further research would be to deepen the results by comparing them with the results of research on other texts transmitted in the canonical collections. 4. Although a direct criticism of the iconoclastic emperors is avoided in the Acts, it hardly seems doubtful that they reflect an effort of the Church to regain competence in matters of faith and to strengthen the position of the Patriarch of Constantinople vis-à-vis the emperors. A clear indication of this is to be found in a section of the Refutatio of the Horos of Hiereia (p. 780,14–16 and 23–28). Further research would still have to examine this point more systematically, always taking into account the different stages of the transmission of the Acts. 5. The Acts of the Council provide numerous important documents on the beginning and course of the iconoclastic controversy up to 787. In recent decades, these documents have been subjected to in-depth criticism and their relevance has been questioned. Likewise, the thesis was put forward that numerous interpolations have been made in the texts of the Acts in the 9th century, a thesis, which has to be rejected for the reasons given in the introductions to the new edition. Therefore, the question must be, whether the “Quellenkritik” of the last decades has overstepped in some cases its target and whether its results need to be modified. |
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| ISBN: | 3110684306 |
| Reference: | Kommentar zu "Concilivm Vniversale Nicaenvm Secvndvm (Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter, 2008)"
Kommentar zu "Concilivm Vniversale Nicaenvm Secvndvm (Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter, 20XX)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Internationale Konferenz "Konziliare Entscheidungsfindung in Spätantike und Frühem Mittelalter (6.-Mitte 9. Jh.)" (2017 : Frankfurt am Main), Konzilien und kanonisches Recht in Spätantike und frühem Mittelalter
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9783110684377-019 |