Innocent I’s Appointment of Boniface as Papal Legate to Constantinople?
This paper investigates Innocent I’s early-fifth-century Epistula 23 to Boniface in order to explore Boniface’s position. It shall be argued, from an examination of the historical context of John Chrysostom’s exile, that, while a number of references in Innocent’s letters are concerned with this epi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
2012
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Sacris erudiri
Year: 2012, Volume: 51, Pages: 135-149 |
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| Summary: | This paper investigates Innocent I’s early-fifth-century Epistula 23 to Boniface in order to explore Boniface’s position. It shall be argued, from an examination of the historical context of John Chrysostom’s exile, that, while a number of references in Innocent’s letters are concerned with this episode, we have no evidence to conclude, as E.G. Weltin did, that Boniface was a permanent papal representative in Constantinople. Papal legates are an important feature of the church in the Middle Ages and grew out of the much more informal arrangement of legationes of Late Antiquity, but it is argued here that Boniface does not represent the beginning of that transformation and that his brief was not to negotiate a reconciliation between Constantinople and Rome. |
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| ISSN: | 2295-9025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sacris erudiri
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.SE.1.103171 |