Browsing by Author "Krausmüller, D."

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Making the Most of Mary: the Cult of the Virgin in the Chalkoprateia From Late Antiquity To the Tenth Century
(Taylor and Francis, 2016) Krausmüller, D.
The pivotal role that the Byzantine belief system accorded to the Mother of God found its expression not only in private devotion but also in public celebrations. The development of these celebrations from late antiquity into the Middle Byzantine period has been the subject of several studies by Jugie, Wenger and Kishpaug.1 However, these authors were primarily interested in establishing pedigrees for contemporary Catholic feasts and paid little attention to the specific social contexts in which their development took place. In this chapter I attempt to fill this gap by focusing on the Constantinopolitan church of Mary in the Chalkoprateia and on the patriarchal clergy that administered it. Through analysis of liturgical, homiletic and hymnographical sources I seek to demonstrate that members of this clergy invented and propagated new celebrations as a means to establish their church as the foremost Marian shrine in the capital against its main rival, the Church of Mary in the Blachernai. © 2011 Leslie Brubaker and Mary B. Cunningham, and the contributors.
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Multiple Hierarchies: Servants and Masters, Monastic Officers, Ordained Monks, and Wearers of the Great and the Small Habit at the Stoudios Monastery (10th – 11th Centuries)
(Slovansky Ustav AV CR, 2016) Krausmüller, D.; Krausmüller, Dırk; 02.14. Department of History / Tarih Bölümü; 02. Faculty of Letters / Edebiyat Fakültesi; 01. Mardin Artuklu University / Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi
This article analyses the Stoudios Typikon, a monastic rule from the late tenth century. The original is lost but the rule can be reconstructed through comparison of later adaptations. Analysis of the text shows there were three hierarchies within the community of Stoudios: the monastic officials responsible for the administration of the monastery under the oikonomos, the priests and deacons under the protopresbyteros, and the wearers of the great and small habit. The three hierarchies were distinct, but efforts were made to harmonise them to minimise con? ict. Most of the monastic officials seem to have been deacons, and no monk could be ordained priest or deacon if he had not previously been clad in the great habit. The Stoudios Typikon emphasises the role of ordained monks. Only priests were allowed to give blessings. Even the oikonomos had to rely on their services if he was a layman. Moreover, in the church, and possibly also in the refectory, the order of precedence followed the ecclesiastical hierarchy and not the hierarchy of the monastic offices, with the sole exception of the oikonomos. Other Stoudite sources suggest that the stipulations of the Stoudios Typikon were never fully implemented. However, there can be little doubt that these stipulations reflected the views of the ordained members of the community. The latter are also the most likely authors of the text. © 2016, Slovansky Ustav AV CR. All rights reserved.