Disciplines
History, Archaeology (15%); Philosophy, Ethics, Religion (75%); Linguistics and Literature (10%)
Keywords
Medieval Studies,
Medieval Theology,
Latin-Greek Relations in the Middle Ages,
Tractatus contra Graecos (1252),
Ecclesiology and Notion of Church,
History of the Order of Preachers
Abstract
The book focuses on the Tractatus contra Graecos (1252) by an anonymous Dominican from
the convent of Constantinople, a theological dossier outstanding with regard to its various
interaction with contemporary Latin-Greek discourses. Polemical theology is, to a certain
extent, always making of: Notions of the other church are conveyed, a church that if the
others did not meet their own expectations of the question of church unity turned from
partner to enemy. The analysis of these notions shows that under an often polemical text
surface there is sometimes a much more original theology than one would expect this genre of
text to be. This theology is the central leitmotif of this book, obtained from and incorporated
into the sketch of medieval ecclesiology.