The inseparable relationship between the concept of heresy and the notion of orthodoxy is one of the central elements in defining the identity of Byzantium. From the earliest centuries of the Church to the controversies that animated the final decades of the Empire’s existence, debates on theological, dogmatic, liturgical, and ritual issues—often in dialogue or conflict with heretical, heterodox, and dissenting movements—were among the forces that nourished Byzantine society and institutions. Over the centuries, religious disputes also acquired a pronounced international dimension and were frequently intertwined with Byzantium’s shifting relations with the Latin West, the Armenians, and various peoples of the Near East. The catalogue of the exhibition Heresy and Orthodoxy in Comparison: Manuscripts and Texts from Byzantium in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana traces the full trajectory of this complex phenomenon—at once religious, social, and political—illustrated by Greek codices, some of them splendidly illuminated. PRIN 2022 PNRR Project P2022FCX7J “Panoplia Panopliarum – The Long Twelfth Century: The Byzantine Age of Anti-Heretical Compilations” (CUP: C53D23008620001). M4.C2.1.1
La relazione inscindibile tra il concetto di eresia e la nozione di ortodossia è uno dei nodi centrali per definire l’identità di Bisanzio. Dai primi secoli della Chiesa fino alle controversie che animarono gli ultimi decenni di vita dell’Impero, il confronto su temi teologici, dogmatici, liturgici e rituali con movimenti eretici, eterodossi e dissenzienti fu uno dei fattori che diede linfa alla società e alle istituzioni bizantine. Nel corso dei secoli le dispute religiose ebbero anche una marcata dimensione internazionale e furono spesso legate ai mutevoli rapporti con gli occidentali, gli Armeni e con diverse popolazioni dei Balcani. Il catalogo della mostra Eresia e ortodossia a confronto. Manoscritti e testi da Bisanzio alla Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana propone un percorso che delinea l’intera parabola di questo complesso fenomeno insieme religioso, sociale e politico, illustrato da codici greci, a volte splendidamente miniati. Progetto PRIN 2022 Pnrr P2022FCX7J “Panoplia Panopliarum - The long twelfth century: the Byzantine age of anti-heretical compilations” (CUP: C53D23008620001). M4.C2.1.1
Eresia e ortodossia a confronto: Manoscritti e testi da Bisanzio alla Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Marco Fanelli;Alessandra Bucossi;
2025-01-01
Abstract
The inseparable relationship between the concept of heresy and the notion of orthodoxy is one of the central elements in defining the identity of Byzantium. From the earliest centuries of the Church to the controversies that animated the final decades of the Empire’s existence, debates on theological, dogmatic, liturgical, and ritual issues—often in dialogue or conflict with heretical, heterodox, and dissenting movements—were among the forces that nourished Byzantine society and institutions. Over the centuries, religious disputes also acquired a pronounced international dimension and were frequently intertwined with Byzantium’s shifting relations with the Latin West, the Armenians, and various peoples of the Near East. The catalogue of the exhibition Heresy and Orthodoxy in Comparison: Manuscripts and Texts from Byzantium in the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana traces the full trajectory of this complex phenomenon—at once religious, social, and political—illustrated by Greek codices, some of them splendidly illuminated. PRIN 2022 PNRR Project P2022FCX7J “Panoplia Panopliarum – The Long Twelfth Century: The Byzantine Age of Anti-Heretical Compilations” (CUP: C53D23008620001). M4.C2.1.1
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