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    Co; sor THE GREAT CHURCH IN CAPTIVITY ‘A STUDY OF THE PATRIARCHATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE FROM THE EVE OF THE TURKISH CONQUEST TO THE GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE STEVEN \RUNCIMAN “ty LimaRy op 2C'e ucewma ay Waae UNIVERSITY = BUDAPEST Rats] CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1968 Pied by the Sy ofthe Cambrge University Pre ‘Bently Hour, 250 Btn Ron, London, 1 Aseria Branch: Bosh Se, Now Yas Ns0252| (© Camtsige Unveity ae 19 ‘trary of Coops Cato Cd Name: 6-9308 Send Bost Nor CONTENTS Preface TURKISH CONQUEST "The Background 2. The Steactre ofthe Church s 3 Prine in Great Bain the Unity Ping Hose, Cambedge ‘ (Geooke Crchey, Unveay Per) 3 j 4 The Church and che Churches 4 j 6 The Theology of Mysticism 7 “The Hierarchy ‘The Monasteries (Church and State ‘The Bast The West "The Church and the Philosophers ‘The End of the Empire SUETANS: “The New Patern ‘The Church and the InfelSete ‘The Church snd Edveation "The Church snd the Churches: Constantinople and Rome age vi 18 8 a7 35 5 15 Br ns 139 16s 186 208 236 Contents 5 The Church and the Churches: ‘The Lutheran Approach 6 The Chareh and the Churches: ‘The CalvinisePatiarch 7 The Church and the Churches: ‘The Anglian Experiment 8 Constantinople and Moscow 9 The Definition of Doctrine 10 The Phanarots 11 The Church and the Greck People 13, Epilogue Bibliography Indes age 38 29 2% 0 338 360 385 47 45 435 PREFACE In 1960 and 1961 Ihad the privilege of giving the Gilford Lectures, at the University of Saint Andtews, where my subject was the Church of Constantinople from 1261 to 1821. In 1966 had the privilege of giving the Birkbock Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, where my subject was the Church of Constantinople and its relations with the Protestant Churches in che sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book is based on both those serie. In it have strayed from the original design of my Gifford Lectures, jn which Thad given equal space tothe Church before 1453 and afer 1453. The Church of the ler Byzantine Empire has been the subject of a number of leamed studies; and I doube if Ihave anything much to add cha eannot be found in other works. The story ofthe Greek Church under the Ottoman Sultansis,however, comparatively lle known, But in order to understand what happened to the Great Charch, a its adherens loyally alld i, during the dark centuries ofits captivity, its necessary to have a pictare of what it had been and how ie had operated before the ‘aptivity bepan. I have therefore reduced my 1960 Gifford Lec- tures to become a preliminary section which sims ata description ‘of the Church a5 it was in che lst yeas of che Byzantine Empire, and have amplified my 1961 Giford Lectures, in the belief that they are of greater value and with the aim of including the fll substance of the Birkbeck Lectures without upsetting the pro portions ofthe book. If, even so, [have given a litle more detail to the Greck Church’s relations with other Churches than to its other aspects, I hope that it will be forgiven me in view of the importance nowadays of the Occumeniesl Movement. Even 0, [have had to be somewhat selective. A detiled account of everything that is known about che later Greek ehrch | ‘would fill many volumesand would beat che same time cutiousy ‘uneven in its detail. The indigenous sources on which such an account must be based are scanty, fewer, indeed, than those that Price arc avaible for thet poiod of Byzantine history. The recon of the Paricaladnntion have alfced on esa be Pactarchate and in dhe monte snd Rom pola niche The Tush governmental records abou te minnie oe pesfanctory. The Grek cones ate ew, and, tough fly tables fac hey go, dono go very fas Thodgh tree many cultured Grek daring thse cemrss ony one ge ¥aotin emerged he bile but somewhere Demet Cant, adn gst cca histor concen Dose, Paachofaalem, Were ot fo the sepee eh account of foreign diplomats, churchmen and wavcllon hee are whole pods about which we shouldbe very gvorny: Brea foc the caer ofthe mow remarkable and mt cuore oF al the Gnsantinopoltn Ptah ofthe pnd, Cyl Leniae swe are principally dependent ons oct of dacunens ae ly an Bnglsh capa, "The ory has oie ben obscured by biter, peje and ignorance les not alae eipng. Not event ot dened Thelen an cli hall the Geka behaved well The ee Indeed ding tect a numberof noble and ee courageous Grek, who ae ll the more tobe adie bees ofthe creamer In which thy Led thle lives: Bur srot des nt usally ring out the best n men. If able poms cocrups absolutly, oto does abslteimpornce th Gone ‘were guityofintiguc and corruption, i us be restored that ey were diag with masts who thames wera on fin corrpe ings But would be uly wonp tons hall de Turk lers were bral and arbiter ent, Many Tarksh oficial dil inde! have a brutal concen he he Christan minoees; bu if hey maluened the Gree ie was chi because they lew that they could not sun on Gon loyal wo eee rul Hellen srt, nacre by he Chek, Sera the Grcks een hoped and plned fr the day te thy would recover eedom. The Turkcaanen hel, Be blamed isch spans provoked hem into sou of coed Profce coppresion. But chee were Tas ach as the Suan Sleiman the Magnificent, whom his own people surmamed the Lagiver, ot che grat vise ofthe Képeil amily, who were consent ast sud fiendly towards the Greck; and even the Conquering Stan Mehmet himsl, once bis savage last for conquest wasted (nd he was no more savage thin many of his contemporary in Renaissance Earope), was proud to ell himself Emperor of the Greeks s wel ofthe Turks, On s humble level selations bee tseeen hee races wete often geninely frend, Ifwe denounce the Greeks as deci or the Turks 3t savage we shall get no- ‘where. Nor, silly, should we let out flings for ot against the great Church of Rome affect our objetvty. A historian has hi petsonal sts and sympathies; bot eradiion will not produce understanding unl iti tempered wih tolerance and feed fom peice The Greeks chemacves have tended to nelet the history of

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