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Betti M.
The Making of Christian Moravia (858-882)
Papal Power and Political Reality
BRILL, Leiden (The Netherlands) 2013
Scheda a cura di: Betti M.
266 pp.
In The Making of Christian Moravia Maddalena Betti examines the
creation of the Moravian archdiocese, of which St Methodius was the
first incumbent, in the context of ninth-century papal policy in central
and south-eastern Europe. In the nineteenth and twentieth century
religious and nationalistic concerns widely influenced the
reconstruction of the history of the archdiocese of Methodius. Offering a
new reading of already widely-used sources, both Slavonic and Latin,
Maddalena Betti turns attention upon the jurisdictional conflict between
Rome, the Bavarian churches and Byzantium, in order to uncover the
strategies and the languages adopted by the Apostolic See to gain
jurisdiction over the new territories in central and south-eastern
Europe.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements ... ix
Foreword ... xi
by Thomas F. X. Noble
Introduction ... 1
I. The Archdiocese of Methodius in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Historiography ... 9
1. The Use of the Cyrillic-Methodian Heritage in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries: Romantic Slavophilism, the “Reawakening of the
Slavs,” and Roman Ecumenism ... 10
2. Great Moravia and the Archdiocese of Methodius in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Czechoslovakia ... 14
3. Revisionist Analyses of the Methodian Archdiocese ... 27
4. The Archdiocese of Methodius in František Dvornik: “La lutte autour de l’Illyricum” ... 34
5. Conclusion ... 39
II. The Origins of the Methodian Diocese during the Pontificates of
Nicholas I (858–867) and Hadrian II (867–872). A Comparison of the Roman
and Slavonic Sources ... 41
1. The Silence of the Roman Sources: The Possible Censure by Pope Stephen V (885–890) ... 43
2. Nicholas I (858–867): The First Contact ... 54
3. Hadrian II (867–872): The Constitution of a New Church ... 65
4. Introduction to the Slavonic Sources: The “Life of Constantine,” the
“Life of Methodius,” and the “Encomium to Constantine and Methodius” ...
72
5. Nicholas I and Hadrian II in the Slavonic Sources: the “Life of
Constantine,” the “Life of Methodius,” and the “Encomium to Cyril and
Methodius” ... 83
6. Anastasius the Librarian and Constantine the Philosopher ... 90
7. A Roman source: The “Vita Constantini-Cyrilli cum translatione S. Clementis” ... 96
8. Conclusion ... 104
III. The Pannonian-Moravian Diocese in the Letters of Pope John VIII (872–882): Papal Strategies and Languages ... 109
1. Papal Missionary Involvement: Sixth to Ninth Century ... 111
2. John VIII’s Diplomatic Network: Letters and Legates ... 121
3. Geographical Sources for the Methodian Archdiocese ... 138
4. Pannonian Diocese—Moravian Diocese ... 154
5. The Ecclesiastical Career of a Roman Missionary: Methodius, Augustine, and Boniface ... 168
6. Svatopluk’s Role in Shaping the “Sancta Ecclesia Marabensis” ...
7. The Sirmian Issue ... 192
8. Conclusion ... 203
Conclusion: The Question of the Sancta Ecclesia Marabensis Revisited ... 207
Maps ... 217
Bibliography ... 223
Index
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