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Einführung
Introduction

Author(s): Ioan-Gabriel Alexandru
Subject(s): History of Church(es), History of ideas, 13th to 14th Centuries, Eastern Orthodoxy, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Herlo Verlag UG
Keywords: Konstantinos Harmenopoulos; heresies; late Byzantium; Byzantine heresiology;

Summary/Abstract: This is the introduction to the critical edition.The introduction situates Harmenopoulos’ De haeresibus within the broader literary and doctrinal tradition of Byzantine heresiology. It begins by defining “heresiology” as the genre of catalogues and dossiers that describe and refute heterodox teachings, forming an integral part of Byzantine dogmatic and polemical literature.

  • Issue Year: 3/2022
  • Issue No: SEBPB 3
  • Page Range: 7-31
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: German
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