- Lectures
- Institute of History and Philology
- Location
Room 701, 7th Floor, IHP Research Hall
- Speaker Name
Hisatsugu KUSABU (Professor, Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences Philosophy and History Course, Osaka Metropolitan University)
- State
Definitive
- Url
This lecture will be given in English, and no prior registration is required.
Organizer: Research Center of Cultural and Intellectual History, IHP, Accademia Sinica
Co-Organizer: Research Center of World History, IHP, Accademia Sinica
Contact: Research Center of Cultural and Intellectual History, cihasihp@gmail.com
Abstract:
The Panoplia Dogmatike (Dogmatic armory or weaponry) was compiled by Euthymios Zigabenos of Constantinople in the 11th-12th Century. It was the first in a series of projects that, produced in Byzantium’s Comnenian dynasty, represented the genre of Byzantine literature that attacked heresy (especially Islam) of the time.The purpose of its compilation was not just to respond to contemporary debates on doctrinal orthodoxy, but also to bring together a collection of texts written by the Church Fathers of early Christianity for religious references. This paper elucidates the significance of the Panoplia literature that was made available to us by later edition and publications.