Evagrius and His Legacy

415 Pages·2016·2.31 MB·English

by  Joel Kalvesmaki

E V A G R I U S
and H I S
L E G A C Y
Edited by
JOEL KALVESMAKI and ROBIN DARLING YOUNG
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Evagrius and His Legacy
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With special thanks to the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collection and the Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, DC.
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E V A G R I U S
and H I S
L E G A C Y
Edited by
JOEL KALVESMAKI and ROBIN DARLING YOUNG
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana
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Copyright © 2016 by the University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kalvesmaki, Joel, editor.
Title: Evagrius and his legacy / edited by Joel Kalvesmaki and
Robin Darling Young.
Description: Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015037517 | ISBN 9780268033293 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
ISBN 0268033293 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 9780268024000 (web pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Evagrius, Ponticus, 345?–399.
Classification: LCC BR65.E926 E93 2015 | DDC 270.2092—dc23 LC
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Ornament and Intellect of the Desert 1
robin darling young & joel kalvesmaki
1 Evagrius and Cappadocian Orthodoxy 14
brian e. daley, sj
2 Thoughts that Cut: Cutting, Imprinting, and Lingering
in Evagrius of Pontus 49
kevin corrigan
3 Evagrius Ponticus, Exegete of the Soul 73
luke dysinger, osb
4 Evagrius and Authority 96
blossom stefaniw
5 Evagrius Ponticus and Maximus the Confessor:
The Building of the Self in Praxis and Contemplation 128
julia konstantinovsky
6 The Role of Letters in the Works of Evagrius 154
robin darling young
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7 Philoxenos of Mabbug and the Simplicity of
Evagrian Gnosis: Competing Uses of Evagrius
in the Early Sixth Century 175
david a. michelson
8 Evagrius beyond Byzantium: The Latin and Syriac
Receptions 206
columba stewart, osb
9 Evagrius: East of the Euphrates 236
anthony j. watson
10 Evagrius in the Byzantine Genre of Chapters 257
joel kalvesmaki
11 Origenism and Anti-Origenism in the Late Sixth
and Seventh Centuries 288
dirk krausmüller
12 The Evagrian Heritage in Late Byzantine Monasticism 317
gregory collins, osb
Bibliography
Select Works of Evagrius 332
Select Editions and Translations of Ancient and Medieval Works 340
Other Primary and Secondary Studies 351
Contributors 377
Index 380
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ABBREVIATIONS
BHL Bibliotheca hagiographica latina antiquitae et mediae aetatis,
SubsHag 6 (Brussels, 1898– 1911; new suppl. 1986)
BL British Library
CCSG Corpus christianorum, Series graeca
CCSL Corpus christianorum, Series latina
CD Corpus Dionysiacum
CFMM Church of the Forty Martyrs (manuscript collection in Mar -
din, Turkey)
CH Church History
CPG Clavis patrum graecorum, ed. M. Geerard and F. Glorie
(Turnhout, 1974– 87) [2nd edition under way, with vol. 3 re-
leased in 2003]
CPL Clavis patrum latinorum, 3rd ed. (Steenbrug, 1995)
CSCO Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium
DACL Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie
DSp Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique et mystique
ET English translation
FT French translation
GCS Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten [drei]
Jahrhunderte
GNO Hermann Langerbeck, ed.,Gregorii Nysseni opera(Leiden,
1960)
KG Kephalaia gnostika(Evagrius)
LSJ H.G. Liddell, R. Scott, H.S. Jones, et al., A Greek-English
Lexicon(Oxford, 1968)
LXX Septuagint
MGMT Mor Garbiel Monastery (manuscript collection)
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viii Abbreviations
NPNF Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series
ODB The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, ed. A. Kazhdan et al.
(New York, 1991)
PG Patrologiae cursus completus, Series graeca, ed. J.-P. Migne
(Paris, 1857– 66)
PL Patrologiae cursus completus, Series latina, ed. J.-P. Migne
(Paris, 1844– 80)
PO Patrologia orientalis
RB Reallexikon der Byzantinistik, ed. P. Wirth (Amsterdam,
1968– )
SC Sources chrétiennes
SubsHag Subsidia hagiographica
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editors of this volume wish to thank the institutions and scholars
who kindly made possible the meetings in which these essays were first
discussed—the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
and the University of Notre Dame. At Dumbarton Oaks, Director Jan
Ziolkowski and then– Director of Byzantine Studies Alice-Mary Tal-
bot generously agreed to cosponsor a two-year, cooperative workshop
on Evagrius and his legacy; when Margaret Mullett arrived as Byzan-
tine director, she graciously and enthusiastically accepted the project.
At the University of Notre Dame, Charles Barbour offered funding
from the fledgling Byzantine Studies program, Kenneth Garcia of the
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts helped secure additional
support, and the staff of the Department of Theology generously as-
sisted with the workshop. Dumbarton Oaks has long had an interest in
the religious literature and monastic institutions of Byzantium, as its
publications attest—for instance, the five-volume Byzantine Monastic
Foundation Documents, its translations of Byzantine Saints’ Lives,
or its Hagiography Database. Notre Dame’s Anastos Collection—now
housed in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Reading Room—and grow -
ing program in Byzantine studies prompted a cooperative effort, and
this volume is one result. Yet an examination of the work and the legacy
of Evagrius was a new project for both institutions. Thus the editors and
authors offer this volume as an invitation to further explorations into the
fascinating thought of Evagrius and his intellectual heirs.
We wish also to thank the participants in the 2012 Roundtable held
at Dumbarton Oaks, who helped think through the presentations,
along with the respondents to the various sessions there: Elizabeth A.
Clark of Duke University, Philip Rousseau and Sidney Griffith of the
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