«Those Brought Together not by God, but by the Devil Must Share the Same Arrows and Wounds»: Accusation of Iconoclasm in Nicephorus Gregoras

2018

Античная древность и средние века, Vol 43, Iss 0, Pp 243-263 (2018)

Nicephorus Gergoras was the first polemicist of the XIVth century to bring an accusation of iconoclasm against Gregory Palamas and his partisans drawing upon Nicephorus’ of Constantinople writings erroneously ascribed to Theodore Graptos. In the “First Antirretici” and “Historia Rhomaike” he 1. Argued for the possibility of employing anti-iconoclastic testimonies in the Hesychast controversy; 2. Offered an original heresiological concept of genetic and typological connection between Iconoclasm and Palamism; 3. Created a complex system of political allusions and historical reflections, presenting Palamas as a new Eusebius of Caesarea, himself – as a new Theodore Graptos, and John VI Cantacuzene – as a new Theophilus.

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Ural Federal University, 2018.

иконоборчество, исихазм, ересиология, григорий палама, никифор григора, никифор константинопольский, филофей коккин, евсевий кесарийский, феодор начертанный, иоанн vi кантакузин, Ancient history, D51-90, Medieval history, D111-203