Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity

Published by De Gruyter

Volume 14 Issue 1

Issue of Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity

Contents
Journal Overview

October 5, 2010

Einleitung / Editorial

Page range: 3-8

October 5, 2010

Kommentierende Analyse zu Liberatus, Breviarium 1-7

Volker Henning Drecoll

Page range: 9-30

Abstract

ABSTRACT The article offers a detailed analysis of the Latin text of the Breviarium , chapters 1-7, in the Schwartz-edition. The list of content, inserted directly befor the Breviarium in the collectio Sangermanensis cannot be affirmed as authentic (but it seems to be elder than the collectio Sangermanensis ). The title and the prooemium offer short hints to person and work of Liberatus. The use of sources in the following chapters offers serious problems and cannot be described as a coherent, consequent method. Liberatus uses the Historia tripartita sometimes verbally, sometimes only summarizing it. Sometimes he inserts even further informations of unknown origin. And he knows an alia lectio of the Historia tripartita , presumably an otherwise unknown version of Socrates' Historia ecclesiastica . For Apollinaris he offers an interesting image of his heresy, but for Paul of Samosata he simply uses the polemical strategy started by Eusebius of Dorylaeum and Caelestinus of Rome against Nestorius. The inthronisation of Maximinus is located on a wrong chronological place by Liberatus, so Liberatus is not always sure in his understanding of the complexe processes of the early 5 th century.

October 5, 2010

Liberatus von Karthago und die „Drei Kapitel“. Anmerkungen zum Breviarium causae Nestorianorum et Eutychianorum 8-10

Uta Heil

Page range: 31-59

Abstract

ABSTRACT The analysis of Breviarium 8-10 shows that Liberatus shares his positive view of Cyril with some of his sources. In his eyes, Cyril's theology is that of 433, so the later Miaphysites lack their leading figure. Liberatus concentrates upon Alexandria while he ignores the perspective of the other capitals like Antioch, Constantinople or even Rome. His perspective is typically Western, so Cyril's theology is in full accordance with the Tomus Leonis . For the Three-Chapters-Controversy only Theodore of Mopsuestia seems to be important.

October 5, 2010

Das Konzil von Chalkedon in der Darstellung des Liberatus von Karthago (Breviarium 11-14)

Martin Wallraff

Page range: 60-73

Abstract

ABSTRACT The analysis of Breviarium 11-14 raises various questions, e.g. why the theology of Chalcedon is nearly missing. Neither the Chalcedonense nor the Tomus Leonis are quoted. Only the position of Eutyches and that of Flavian become clear. Thus the tendency of the Breviarium seems to be sceptical towards interpretations according to which the Christological debate can be seen as victory of a clear position of the bishops of Rome. Even the canons of Chalcedon (with canon 28) are located on a wrong place in the narrative order, but here Liberatus follows only his sources.

October 5, 2010

Das akakianische Schisma: Liberatus, Breviarium 15-18

Hanns Christof Brennecke

Page range: 74-95

Abstract

ABSTRACT The analysis of Breviarium 15-18 shows the pro-chalcedonian, Western position of Liberatus. He stresses the impact of the bishop of Rome: Orthodoxy seems to mean obedience towards Rome. Liberatus expects an active role of the emperors in theological or ecclesiastical debates, so this cannot be regarded as a typically Eastern position. He reduces the theology of the debate to a couple of sentences and the Henotikon . The exact meaning of the Henotikon that is offered in a Latin version remains, however, unclear. Liberatus uses own sources that differ considerably from Ps.Zacharias Rhetor.

October 5, 2010

Liberatus' Polemik gegen die Verurteilung der drei Kapitel und seine alexandrinische Quelle. Einige Beobachtungen zu Breviarium 19-24

Benjamin Gleede

Page range: 96-129

Abstract

ABSTRACT The analysis of Breviarium 19-24 shows that Liberatus inserts additional informations in the material stemming from the Alexandrina source he uses. Thus he offers an excursus about John II of Rome in chapter 19 and another excursus about the Roman bishops Agapet, Silverius and Vigilius in chapters 21f. For the excursus in chapter 19 the theopaschite sentences condemned by John II of Rome seem to contain real traces of the controversy between Severus and Makedonios (pace Schwartz). The excursus in chapters 21f. is clearly dominated by a North-African, polemical point of view. This becomes clear by various comparisons with the Liber Pontificalis , Facundus or Victor of Tunnuna. Especially the influence of Theodora seems to be exaggerated by Liberatus. The final chapters 23f. can be compared especially with Procopius. Liberatus pursues his critical perspective against the bishops of Rome and he leads the controversy about Paul of Tabennisi back to Theodoros Askidas (so Justinian seems to be not responsible for this).

October 5, 2010

Das Breviarium des Liberatus von Karthago. Einige Hypothesen zu seiner Intention

Mischa Meier

Page range: 130-148

Abstract

ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to demonstrate that some current views on Liberatus and his Breviarium must be modified. The author suggests that Liberatus did not write the small book in order to criticize Justinian's religious policy in the Three Chapters Controversy. He rather intended to defend Justinian and to introduce his African contemporaries in the structure and mechanisms of the now ruling East Roman church policy.

October 5, 2010

Das Bild der Kaiser bei Liberatus

Hartmut Leppin

Page range: 149-165

Abstract

ABSTRACT The image of the emperors sketched by Liberatus is interesting in comparison with other church historians, e.g. of the 5th century. From Liberatus' point of view the emperors do not play an active role nor they have clear theological positions. Instead of this, the best emperor has the best advisors. The emperors seem to act only if necessary, and wrong or bad decisions can regularly lead back to wrong or bad advisors. While the theological position of the emperors seems to be not so important, the emperors are not responsible for the heavy struggles and controversies in the church.

October 5, 2010

Tendenziöse Historiographie bei Liberatus: Von Proterius bis Athanasios II

Bruno Bleckmann

Page range: 166-195

Abstract

ABSTRACT The comparison of Liberatus with Ps.Zacharias Rhetor shows considerable differences. Liberatus seems to use an own source, probably the Graecum Alexandriae scriptum . Since Liberatus seems to be quite dependent in his use of his sources, the tendency that is different from Ps.Zacharias seems to go back to this source. Thus Liberatus is an important witness for such an Alexandrian counterpart of Ps.Zacharias.

October 5, 2010

Africa zwischen Vandalen, Mauren und Byzantinern (533-548 n.Chr.)

Konrad Vössing

Page range: 196-225

Abstract

ABSTRACT The history of the Byzantine conquest of North-Africa reveals that the image of this conquest as liberation of the old Roman structures from the Vandalians was illusory. The new Byzantine administration tried to pursue this strategy, but regularly failed if it was not able to integrate the structures of the Vandalian time. Thus the restoration of the old, ante-Vandalian structures was nearly not possible. This seems to be even the case in ecclesiastical affairs, where the Byzantines tried to establish a new, prochalcedonian leadership.

October 5, 2010

Spurensuche: Beobachtungen zur Rezeption des Liberatus in der Karolingerzeit und im Hochmittelalter

Steffen Patzold

Page range: 226-249

Abstract

ABSTRACT The manuscript tradition of the Breviarium must be rewritten, especially because of its dependence of the transmission of Ps.Isidore. Pace Schwartz even the pieces that follow the Breviarium in the collectio Sangermanensis belong to the collection before the 9th century. The question whether the author of the collection modified not only the Codex encyclius, but even the Breviarium , cannot be solved. In the 9th century Hinkmar of Reims used a manuscript of the Breviarium that contained Prospers Liber contra collatorem , too. In the 11th century Bernold of Konstanz used the Breviarium just for showing his extraordinary erudition. Perhaps he used manuscript W, stemming from the Reichenau.

October 5, 2010

Rezensionen/Reviews

Page range: 250-266

October 5, 2010

Zeitschriftenschau/Journal Reviews

Page range: 267-269

About this journal

The Journal of Ancient Christianity aims to publish original, international research from various disciplines of ancient Christianity and to bring these research topics into dialogue. Essays are welcome from patristics or patrology, history of antiquity and late antiquity, classical philology, (late) ancient history of philosophy, and archaeology, as are contributions on epigraphy, papyrology, manuscript studies, edition techniques, ancient legal history, etc. The journal also considers sources from the Christian Orient (Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopian, etc.) and offers space for short critical editions.

The journal is not restricted to a particular program in terms of content or methodology, but instead is open to new research initiatives. Thus, the journal does not impose a particular concept of "antiquity" or "late antiquity," although it does concentrate on the period from the 2nd to the 8th century. The focus is on ancient and late antique Christianity in its entire breadth, i.e., with its various religious practices, theories, concepts, and group formations, inasmuch as these represent integral aspects of (late) antique culture.

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