Le ‘Schisme photien’: la contribution de Francis Dvorník
The 'Photian Schism': the contribution of Francis Dvorník

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to clarify Dvornik’s contribution to the study of the so-called ‘Photian schism’ by way of review of his major works on the subject and by detailed analysis of a specific question, the crisis of 862. For this purpose a number of hitherto unnoticed parallels betweenTheognostus’s Libellus ad Nicolaum I Papam and Nicholas’s polemic letters to Photius and Michael III are drawn, and new interpretations of evidence (letters of Hadrian II, Stylianos Mappas and the Kanonensammlung of Cardinal Deusdedit) are proposed. This dossier demonstrates the key role played in provoking the crisis by a group of Constantinopolitan anti-Photian escapees shortly after their arrival in Rome, against the background of the Roman-Constantinopolitan relations of the period.

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