Refutationes theologicae doctrinae Latinorum: introduction, critical edition and translation

Nicholas of Methone; Carmelo Nicolò Benvenuto

Refutationes theologicae doctrinae Latinorum: introduction, critical edition and translation

Authors

Nicholas of Methone

Carmelo Nicolò Benvenuto

University of Basilicata

https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9387-9192

Keywords:

Nicholas of Methone, Filioque, Byzantine polemical literature

Synopsis

Series: Akribos anaginoskein, 3

Pages: 196

Language: Italian

Published: 2024

ISBN: 978-88-31309-36-3

Abstract: During the ‘long’ twelfth century which saw the deepening of relations between the Byzantine East and the Latin West, in a profound and mutual fascination, often along the lines of the strategic orientations of a pro-Western emperor like Manuel Komnenos , Nicholas of Methone was eminently a “guardian of orthodoxy.” In the polemical corpus of the bishop of Methone, often understudied and under-esteemed, the Refutationes theologicae doctrinae Latinorum are undoubtedly the text characterized by the most stratified and complex manuscript tradition, whose first comprehensive critical reconsideration is proposed in this volume, together with its first critical edition and Italian translation.

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Author Biographies

Nicholas of Methone

Nicholas of Methone (died 1160/1166) was a Byzantine theologian and philosopher who served as the bishop of Methone from around 1150.

Carmelo Nicolò Benvenuto, University of Basilicata

Carmelo Nicolò Benvenuto is currently a post-doctoral research fellow in the frame of the PRIN 2022 project "PatriarX: Paths of the transmission of Cyril’s Lexicon", at the University of Basilicata. He deals with Byzantine literature connected to the relations and cultural exchanges between the Byzantine East and the Latin West in the Komnenian age, with particular interest in the relations between churches and the polemical treatises on the Filioque.