
	Philosophy and Culture Reference: Shabanov, D. A. Ceremonial and Actual Superiority in Byzantine Polemics about the Rome Primacy // Philosophy and Culture. 2012. № 3. P. 15-26. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=59299 Shabanov, D. A. Ceremonial and Actual Superiority in Byzantine Polemics about the Rome Primacy Abstract: The problem of ceremonial priorities and actual superiority is one of the main issues of late Byzantine polemics with the Latin West. Despite the fact that the idea of the Pope primacy was met with rebuke among Byzantine authors, many polemists based their arguments on specific conceptions of Barlaam of Seminara who viewed hierarchy of episcopate as a ceremonial formality and, in act, denied the idea of actual superiority. Early Byzantine views on the subject of superiority suggests a wider solution o the problem where the superiority is understood as special service but not just a ceremonial function. Keywords: cultural studies, Areopagitica, Barlaam of Seminara, Dimitry of Cyzicus, Nicholas Cabasilas, superiority, succession, priority, primacy, patriarchy. This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article This article written in Russian. You can find original text of the article here . References 1. Dionisiy Areopagit. O tserkovnoy ierarkhii. Poslaniya / Per. G.M. Prokhorov. SPb., 2001. 2. O edinoy istinnoy pravoslavnoy vere. Ostrog, 1588. 3. Simeon Solunskiy, blazh. Sochineniya. SPb., 1856. 4. Braun O. De Sancta Nicaena Synodo. Syrische Texte des Maruta von Maipherkat nach einer handschrift der Propaganda zu Rom. Münster, 1898. 5. Dagron G. Le traité de Grégoire de Nicée sur le bapteme des Juifs // Travaux et Mémoires. 11. 1991. 6. Darrouzès J. Documents inédits d’ecclesiologie byzantine. Paris, 1966. P. 116-159. 7. Darrouzès J. Epistoliers byzantins du Kh eme siècle. Paris, 1960. 8. Dvornik F. The Photian Schisme, History and Legend. Cambridge, 1948. 9. Kakkridis Th. I. Die opuscula Barlaams von Kalabrien in kirchenslavischer Uberlieferung // Die Welt der Slaven. 1986. 10. Kolbaba T. Barlaam the Calabrian: Three Treatises on Papal Primacy / Introd., ed., and transl // Revue des études byzantine. T. 53. Paris, 1995. 11. Meyendorff J., Afanassief N. Der Primat des Petrus in der Orthodoxen Kirche. Zurich: EVZ-Verlag, 1961. 12. Patrologia cursus completus. Ser. Graeca / Ed. J.P. Migne. Paris, 1857-1866. 13. Sinkewicz R.E. The “Solutions” addressed to George Lapithes by Barlaam the Calabrian and their philosophical context // Mediaeval studies. 1981. 14. Synodicon Orientale/ Ed. et tr. Chabot J.-B. Paris, 1902. 15. van Esbroeck M. Peter the Iberian and Dionysius the Areopagite: Honigmann’s thesis revisited // Orientalia Christiana Periodica, 59. 1993

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Shabanov, D. A. Ceremonial and Actual Superiority in Byzantine Polemics about the Rome Primacy