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Book Number
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000322545
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ISBN
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 1800856849 (hardback)
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9781800856844 (hardback)
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Main Entry
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Council of Constantinople (4th :: 869-870 :: Constantinople),
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Title
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The acts of the Council of Constantinople of 869-70 / translated by Richard Price ; with an introduction and notes by Federico Montinaro.
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Title
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[Gesta sanctæ ac universalis octavae synodi quae Constantinopoli congregata est.English]
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Imprint
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Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2022.
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Descr.
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viii, 504 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
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Series
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( Translated texts for historians ; volume 79)
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Language
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eng lat
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Bibliogr.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-483) and indexes.
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Abstract
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The Council of Constantinople of 869-70 was highly dramatic, with its trial and condemnation of Patriarch Photius, a towering figure in the Byzantium of his day, and the tussle of wills at the council between the papal legates, the imperial representatives and the bishops. It was church politics and personalities rather than issues of doctrine, such as icon veneration, that dominated the debates. Out of all the acts of the great early councils, the acts of this council, of which this edition is the first modern translation, are the nearest to an accurate and complete record. Its protest against secular interference in ecclesiastical elections was taken up later in the West and led to this council’s being accorded full ecumenical status, although it had been repudiated in Byzantium soon after it was held. No early council expresses so vividly the tension between Rome’s claim to supreme authority and the Byzantine reduction of this to a primacy of honour. --Book cover.
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Lang. Note
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Translated from the Latin.
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Per.Sub.
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Photius I,, Saint, Patriarch of Constantinople,, approximately 820-approximately 891.
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Conf.Sub.
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Council of Constantinople (4th :, 869-870 :, Constantinople)
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Subject - Lib.Cong.
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Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Sources.
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Councils and synods, Ecumenical.
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Add.Entry
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Price, Richard, 1947 December 10- translator.
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Montinaro, Federico, writer of introduction.
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Series AE-Uni.Title
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Translated texts for historians ; v. 79.
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Gennadius Library
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