Church Reforms in the Late Byzantine Empire: A Study for the Patriarchate of Athanasios of Constantinople

Series: Analecta Vlatadon, No. 35. In English. Hard cover, 24 cm, 240 pp.

CONTENTS:

13th CENTURY BYZANTIUM AND THE NEED FOR CHURCH REFORM - POLITICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS - THE NATURE OF ATHANASIOS REFORMS - SOURCES - NARRATIVE - HAGIOGRAPHICAL - EPISTOLARY - THE PATRIARCHATES OF ATHANASIOS - THE LIFE OF ATHANASIOS BEFORE THE FIRST PATRIARCHATE - ATHANASIOS FIRST PATRIARCHATE - ATHANASIOS FIRST RESIGNATION - JOHN XII COSMAS - ATHANASIOS SECOND PATRIARCHATE - POLITICAL ECCLESIOLOGY - SOCIAL REFORMS - THE NEARA - ANDRONICOS SUPPORT AND ATHANASIOS REFORMS - ATHANASIOS SECOND RESIGNATION - ATHANASIOS AND THE REFORM OF EPISCOPAL ABUSES - ECCLESIASTICAL DISLOCATION - EPISCOPAL CORRUPTION - THE SYNODOS ENDEMOUSA - EPISCOPAL RESIDENCE - CONVERSIONS - MORAL LIFE - ECCLESIASTICAL INTERFERENCE IN CONSTANTINOPLE - ATHANASIOS AND THE REFORM OF CLERICAL ABUSES - THE CLERGY OF ST. SOPHIA - GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CLERGY - ATHANASIOS AND THE REFORM OF MONASTIC ABUSES - MONASTIC WEALTH - PATRIARCHAL JURISTICTION - PROTECTION OF MONASTIC PROPERTY - ATHANASIOS AND HESYCHASM - MONASTIC DECADANCE - DOUBLE MONASTERIES - MONASTIC MOBILITY - MOUNT ATHOS - MONASTIC REGULATIONS - ATHANASIOS AND THE BYZANTINE REACTION TO NON-ORTHODOX RELIGIOUS PRESENCE - JEWS, ARMENIANS, AND ELLUSLIMS - CONCLUSIONS - BIBLIOGRAPHY – INDEX.