'On the Beliefs of the Greeks'

Leo Allatios and Popular Orthodoxy
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13180-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 54, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 252 mm, Gewicht: 819 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

This book deals with popular Orthodoxy during the Byzantine and Ottoman periods, approaching the material from a historical and anthropological perspective. The discussion takes as its starting point a letter of Leo Allatios, the seventeenth-century author and scriptor of the Vatican Library. The early chapters of the book focus on Allatios and the western intellectual background in which the work was written, while later chapters consider popular beliefs and practices surrounding childstealing demons, revenants, spirits of place and popular healing.
This book provides the first detailed treatment of a major source for post Byzantine popular Orthodoxy, offering valuable insights into the relationships between laity and clergy, Orthodoxy and Catholicism, religion and natural philosophy during the seventeenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hartnup, Karen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

1. Introduction
2. The Sources for Orthodox Popular Religion
3. Leo Allatios: His Life and Influences
4. The Gello and Popular Religion
5. The Gello and Baptism
6. The Gello and Marriage
7. The Vrykolakas
8. The Tympaniaios
9. Allatios and Popular Healing
10. Allatios and the Stoicheion
Conclusion

Conspectus of Sources
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Karen Hartnup, Ph.D. (2000) in History, University of Edinburgh researches into popular Orthodoxy and the relationship between Orthodoxy and Catholicism in the Byzantine and post Byzantine periods.