Psellos and the Patriarchs
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Psellos and the Patriarchs

Letters and Funeral Orations for Keroullarios, Leichoudes, and Xiphilinos

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Psellos and the Patriarchs

Letters and Funeral Orations for Keroullarios, Leichoudes, and Xiphilinos

About this book

Psellos and the Patriarchs: Letters and Funeral Orations for Keroullarios, Leichoudes, and Xiphilinos contains translations of the funeral orations written by Michael Psellos, the leading Byzantine intellectual of the eleventh century, for the three ecumenical patriarchs of Constantinople whom he knew best: Michael Keroullarios (1043-1058), Konstantinos Leichoudes (1059-1063), and Ioannes Xiphilinos (1064-1075). The orations are significant sources for the lives and reputations of these patriarchs; they are also a prime source for the educational reforms made by the emperor Konstantinos IX Monomachos in the mid-1040s, and for many events of that turbulent century that Psellos witnessed, including popular uprisings, plots, civil wars, and the battle with the Catholic legates in 1054. Never before translated into English, the orations and letters are introduced by a detailed analysis of Psellos' historical relationships with the patriarchs and an interpretation of the works.

The orations are not only important historical sources: they are crucial specimens of Byzantine rhetoric in a period of transition, as well as being key texts in the corpus of Psellos himself. Psellos used them to score important points in support of his own philosophical agenda and to make broader claims about ethics and metaphysics and the role of learning in political and ecclesiastical life. The orations are here accompanied by translations of a long letter that Psellos wrote to Keroullarios and a pair of letters to Xiphilinos, in which he defended key aspects of his philosophical project.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Frontispiece
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. General Introduction
  9. Chapter 1: Letter to the Patriarch Kyr Michael Keroullarios
  10. Chapter 2: Funeral Oration for the Most Blessed Patriarch Kyr Michael Keroullarios
  11. Chapter 3: Funeral Oration for the Most Holy Patriarch Kyr Konstantinos Leichoudes
  12. Chapter 4: Letters to Ioannes Xiphilinos
  13. Chapter 5: Funeral Oration for the Most Blessed Patriarch Kyr Ioannes Xiphilinos
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index