Le texte comme manifeste politico-théologique: transmettre Byzance aux sujets et vassaux chrétiens de l’Empire Ottoman au XVIIIe siècle. Le cas du Livre des Règnes de Césaire Dapontès (1770-1774)
The Text as a Political-Theological Manifesto: Transmitting Byzantium to the Christian Subjects and Vassals of the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century. The Case of the Book of Reigns by Kaisarios Dapontes (1770–1774)

Summary/Abstract: The Book of Reigns (1770-1774) by Caesarius Dapontes takes the form of a catalogue of the deeds of the Byzantine emperors from Constantine I to Constantine XI. Actually, this subject provides a basis for a demonstration to which the knowledge of the entire work of Dapontes gives the key. In the form of a remodelling of pre-existing texts, a theological argument is transmitted: not only the author but also Byzantium as a whole must go through a phase of atonement for their sins (Ottoman domination for Byzantium) at the end of which the author will be saved and Byzantium will see, at the end of the Russo-Turkish war of 1768-1774, the return of a Christian emperor.

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