The Six Dialogues by Niketas ‘Of Maroneia’: A Contextualising Introduction

This contribution examines how the dialogical form was used during 11th and 12th century by those authors who discussed the theological differences between the Latin and the Church churches. A particular attention is devoted to the Six Dialogues on the procession of the Holy Spirit by Niketas of Thessalonica, a 12th-century theologian who, for the first time, wrote a "conciliatory" text that hoped for a possibile solution of the controversy between the two Churches.