This book provides the first full account of Dioscorus as patriarch of Alexandria between 444 and 451 CE. Often historically tarnished as a ruthless 'tyrant-bishop' in the Western Church, Dioscorus is shown rather to be a conflicted reformer against the backdrop of the Later Roman Empire and its political mechanisms for implementing 'Orthodoxy'.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1: Cyril's legacy: Between bankruptcy and sanctity
2: Wind of change? Dioscorus and the See of St Mark
3: The emperor's henchman: Dioscorus and the 'Robber-Council'
4: The Black Swan of Chalcedon and Dioscorus' deposition
Conclusion: Dioscorus' afterlives as heretic, saint, and reformer
Volker L. Menze is Associate Professor for Late Antique History at Central European University, particularly working on ecclesiastical history 300-700 CE. His recent publications include an edited volume on Syriac hagiography and articles on church councils, book burnings, bribery, episcopal nepotism, and alternative ecclesiologies in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
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