Download PDF | Deno J. Geanakoplos - Byzantine East And Latin West - Two worlds of Christendom in middle ages and renaissance, 1966.
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PREFACE
In something of the same manner that the world is today split into eastern and western camps, so medieval Christendom became increasingly divided into two worlds, that of the Byzantine East and the Latin West. The main purpose of this book, or series of related essays, is to examine certain key points or themes in the interaction of these two worlds during the medieval and Renaissance period with particular emphasis on the ecclesiastical and cultural influences of the Byzantine and postByzantine East on the West—influences which, as is not generally realized, continued even after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453 and as late as 1600.
It is hoped that this work, or sections thereof, will be of interest not only to students of medieval history, western as well as Byzantine, but to those interested in the Renaissance, especially in the humanistic revival of Greek letters, and perhaps to Renaissance art historians. And not least, in view of the present Vatican Council and the current movement toward ecclesiastical rapprochement, it is the author’s hope that the book, by providing some account of earlier efforts for union of the Greek and Roman churches, will, by analogy, shed light on some of the problems involved in modern efforts at ‘ecumenism’. While this book was in press Pope Paul VI of Rome and Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople, on December 7, 1965, in a remarkable act of ecclesiastical statesmanship, lifted the now historic excommunications launched in 1054 by the legates of Pope Leo IX and Patriarch Michael Cerularius.
This act, annulling excommunications originally involving essentially only Cerularius and the legates, cannot of course at one stroke erase the religious schism of a thousand years. But it is the first positive step in the right direction of healing a breach between eastern and western Christians which, as is the underlying theme of this book, developed not only as a result of ecclesiastical differences, but, in a much broader context, of political, cultural, and psychological considerations as well.
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