Voordrachten: 'Mythologie tot Orthodoxie'

‘Byzance après Byzance’: Orthodox-christelijke cultuur ‘in het Grieks’

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Abstract

Steven Runciman called the Patriarchate of Constantinople under Ottoman rule “the great church in captivity.” In the opinion of the Romanian historian Nicolae Iorga, there existed a “Byzance après Byzance”, the continuation of the Byzantine ecclesiastical, cultural and – to some extent – political traditions within the framework of the Ottoman state. This contribution aims to shed some light on both perceptions of the fate of the Orthodox Church in the Ottoman period, but also pays attention to the remarkable revival of what Dimiter Obolensky named “the Byzantine commonwealth”: the emergence of a sound Orthodox Christian – rather than (ethnically) Greek – religious and cultural community that made use of Greek as the (ethnically unmarked) common language of the intellectual elite.

How to Cite:

Detrez, R., (2016) “‘Byzance après Byzance’: Orthodox-christelijke cultuur ‘in het Grieks’”, Tetradio 25(1): 6, 149–172. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tetradio.91854