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Uliana Boiarintseva PHILOLOGICAL and HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF Uliana Boiarintseva PHILOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TREATISE ON PARADISE BY NIKETAS STETHATOS MA Thesis in Comparative History, with a specialization in Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies. Central European University CEU eTD Collection Budapest May 2018 PHILOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TREATISE ON PARADISE BY NIKETAS STETHATOS by Boiarintseva Uliana (Russia) Thesis submitted to the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Arts degree in Comparative History, with a specialization in Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies. Accepted in conformance with the standards of the CEU. ____________________________________________ Chair, Examination Committee ____________________________________________ CEU eTD Collection Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________________ Examiner PHILOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TREATISE ON PARADISE BY NIKETAS STETHATOS by Boiarintseva Uliana (Russia) Thesis submitted to the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Arts degree in Comparative History, with a specialization in Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies. Accepted in conformance with the standards of the CEU. CEU eTD Collection ____________________________________________ External Reader PHILOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TREATISE ON PARADISE BY NIKETAS STETHATOS by Boiarintseva Uliana (Russia) Thesis submitted to the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Arts degree in Comparative History, with a specialization in Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies. Accepted in conformance with the standards of the CEU. ____________________________________________ CEU eTD Collection External Supervisor I, the undersigned, Boiarintseva Uliana, candidate for the MA degree in Comparative History, with a specialization in Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies declare herewith that the present thesis is exclusively my own work, based on my research and only such external information as properly credited in notes and bibliography. I declare that no unidentified and illegitimate use was made of the work of others, and no part of the thesis infringes on any person’s or institution’s copyright. I also declare that no part of the thesis has been submitted in this form to any other institution of higher education for an academic degree. Budapest, 18 May 2018 __________________________ Signature CEU eTD Collection Abstract This thesis is dedicated to the treatise On Paradise, written by the Byzantine theologian of the eleventh century, Niketas Stethatos (c. 1005 – c. 1090). The main aim of my work it to reconstruct the historical and philological background of the treatise in order to provide a better understanding of his work. The thesis includes three chapters, intending to answer the following questions: 1) In which historical circumstances did Niketas create the treatise and what kind of agenda did he have? 2) Which authors did Niketas rely on and how did he apply their ideas on the philological level? 3) Which exegetical models did he use and how were they reflected in the composition of the treatise? In my thesis I claim that composing his treatise, Niketas followed a specific “politics” of referencing, implying a particular hierarchy of authors, expressed in the author’s choice of this or another way of quoting. While some of them he quoted word to word, the traces of others can only be distinguished after the deep analysis of the treatise’s structure. Therefore, I argue that the treatise On Paradise had different levels of meaning, corresponding with the Byzantine exegetical schemes, already well formed by the eleventh century. CEU eTD Collection i Table of Contents Abstract ....................................................................................................................................... i Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 3 Existing Scholarship ............................................................................................................... 3 Chapter 1 – Historical Context of the Treatise. Polemics among Socio-Political Groups of the Eleventh Century ....................................................................................................................... 7 The Patriarchate of Alexios Stoudites (1025-43) ................................................................... 8 Michael Keroularios (1043-1058): a Figure Changing the Colour .......................................... 12 The Role of Niketas in the Trial of John Italos .................................................................... 15 Chapter 2 – References to Church Authorities in the Treatise On Paradise: the Boundaries of Theological Thought ................................................................................................................ 19 Types of References ............................................................................................................. 20 Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by John of Damascus as a Framework of the Treatise On Paradise............................................................................................................. 21 Chapter 3 – Structure and Meaning of the Treatise On Paradise: Exegetical Model of Evagrius Ponticus .................................................................................................................................... 34 Exegetical Models of the Alexandrian School in the Treatise On Paradise: Praktikē, Physikē, and Theologia of Evagrius of Pontus .................................................................... 40 Elements of Poetical Language in the Descriptions of Paradise: Influence of Symeon the New Theologian ................................................................................................................... 50 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................... 53 Bibliography ............................................................................................................................ 55 CEU eTD Collection ii Introduction In this work, I will scrutinize the treatise On Paradise by Niketas Stethatos. He was a Byzantine theologian of the eleventh century, who became famous, first of all, as a biographer of his teacher, Symeon the New Theologian (949–1022). Having become at the end of his life the Father Superior of the Studite monastery in Constantinople, he was quite influential in the capital. In different periods of his life, he was involved either in protection of his teacher’s honor, which was attacked by representatives of the Church, opposing the authority gained by him; or in polemics with the Latins. For a long time, researchers did not appreciate Niketas as an outstanding historical figure, but rather as someone who was only a close associate to the influential people of his time: both to secular and ecclesiastic authorities. It was only during the last fifteen years that the historians began to show more concern with his works. Existing Scholarship One can define several problems in the historiography of Niketas Stethatos’ works. These problems were interesting for historians in different periods. I specified four of them: a) Stethatos as a biographer of Symeon the New Theologian; b) Stethatos as a participant of the events of 1054; c) Stethatos as a source (interest to the edition of his works); d) Stethetos as a theologian. There is CEU eTD Collection an additional problem in defining the chronology of Stethatos’ life and works. The main points of the historiography in chronological sequence: 3 1) Interest in Niketas starts from the 60s of the XIX century, when his Centuries1 were edited in the Patrologia Graeca series. In 1861 and 1879 there were published two articles, dedicated to Niketas: one by C. Will,2 and another by M. V. Chelcov3 – both authors were concerned with Niketas as a polemist with the Latins. Afterwards, up to the late 1920s (1928, strictly speaking) Stethatos did not attract the scholars. 2) At the end of 1920s, and the first half of the 1930s, Niketas became interesting for scholars again. One can hardly trace any historiographical tendency, which could explain this, because it is mainly connected with the name of one scholar, A. Michel4, who wrote four of seven articles, edited in this period. All of them are dedicated to Niketas as a participant in the schism. K. Schweinburg was also concerned with this problem, having published an article Die Textgeschichte des Gesprächs mit den Franken von Niketas Stethatos5 . The year 1928 is important for the study of Simeon the New Theologian’s heritage: I. Hausherr and G. Horn66 edited his biography authored by Niketas’. Perhaps, as a reaction to this work, L. A. Freiberg published her 1 Jacques Paul Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus. Series Graeca (Paris, 1857 - 1904) vol. 120, 825– 1005. 2 Cornelius Will, ed., Acta et scripta quae de controversiis Ecclesiae Graecae et Latinae saeculo undecimo composita extant (Leipzig: Elwert, 1861), 127 – 136. 3 Mikhail Chelcov, “Niketas Stethatos. An Epistle to the Romans about the Azymes and Fasting on Saturday” [Nikita Stifat. Poslanie rimljanam ob opresnokah i poste v subbotu] in
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