Polemical Literature in the Late Byzantine World (13th-15th centuries)

The Conference’s purpose is to explore the literary aspects of polemic in the Late Byzantium and in the context of the turbulent Palaiologan period (1261-1453), when certain religious, ethnic, and social groups strived to defend their identity. This international Conference is organized in relation to the project “Anti-Jewish Greek Literature in the Late-Medieval Crete” funded by the Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus.

Programme

10.00 - 10.10

GREETINGS
Prof. Dr. Heike Grieser (Mainz)
Dr. Eleftherios Despotakis (Mainz)

CHAIR: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Leppin (Frankfurt)

10.10 - 10.25

Assoc. Prof. Dr. John A. Demetrakopoulos (Patras)
Manuel II Palaiologos’ Anti-Pagan
Agenda in Ὅθεν ἄν τις ἄθεον ἄνδρα µήποτε λόγον εἰσδεδεγµένον περὶ Θεοῦ χειραγωγήσῃ πρὸς θεογνωσίαν τε καὶ εὐσέβειαν στίχοι and Hermonymos Christonymos Charitonymos’ Capita decem pro divinitate Christi

10.35 - 10.50

Dr. Panagiotis Ch. Athanasopoulos (Ioannina)
Ancient Historical Sources in the  Service of Scepticism in Bessarion’s In Calumniatorem Platonis, Bk. IV

11.00 - 11.15

Dr. Demetrios Chatzemichael (Thessaloniki)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. John A. Demetracopoulos (Patras)

Aristotle vs. Plato on True Monotheism: a Commented Critical Edition of Scholarios’ Autograph Note on Aristotle’s Metaphysics XII, 8

11.25 - 11.40 BREAK

CHAIR: Prof. Dr. Günter Prinzing (Mainz)

11.40 - 11.55

Prof. Dr. Andrea Riedl (Regensburg)
The Latin Empire of Constantinople (1204-1261) in 13th-Century Polemical Writings contra Latins and Greeks

12.05 - 12.20

Ass. Prof. Dr. Manolis Patedakis (Rethymnon)
A Short Treatise “On the Holy Spirit, against Latins …” and the Book called “Synagmata” by Athanasios I of Constantinople

12.30 - 12.45

Prof. Dr. Antonio Rigo (Venice)
Lists of Heresies and Heresiological Materials in Works of the 14th-century Theological Controversy

12.55 - 14.00 BREAK

CHAIR: Prof. Dr. Johannes Pahlitzsch (Mainz)

14.00 - 14.15

Dr. Marie-Hélène Blanchet (Paris)
The Criticism of the Roman Ecclesiastical Vocabulary in the Late Byzantine Polemical Literature: “Catholic”, “Apostolic”, “Head”, “Mother”, “Teacher” …

14.25 - 14.40

Dr. Saskia Dönitz (Frankfurt)
Lost in Exegesis – Byzantine Jewish
Polemics against Christians

14.50 - 15.05

Dr. Eleftherios Despotakis (Mainz)
Remarks on the the Disputatio contra Iudaeos of the 15th century Cretan Author Manuel Savios

15.15 - 15.30

Prof. Dr. Christian Kappes (Pittsburgh, PA)
A New Polemic: The Origins of the Latin Argument contra Damascenum on the Filioque and Greek Reactions

15.40 - 16.00 FINAL REMARKS