Acta et Diplomata Graeca Medii Aevi Sacra et Profana

A six-volume compilation of Greek documents relating to the Byzantine Church and state in the Middle Ages, published 1860–90.

Franz Miklosich (Edited by), Josef Müller (Edited by)

9781108044547, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 March 2012

490 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.62 kg

This six-volume work, published between 1860 and 1890, contains a selection of documents in Greek which throw light on the history and politics of the Byzantine Empire in the Middle Ages. The editors, Franz Miklosich (1813–91), philosopher, linguist and Slovenian nationalist, and Josef (or Giuseppe) Müller (1823–95), a Greek scholar who also translated many important works by German classical historians into Italian, used as one of their sources the volumes of Greek manuscripts brought back to Vienna by Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522–92), the Flemish diplomat, herbalist, and travel writer who had acted as Imperial Ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Volume 5 (published in 1887) reveals the efforts of churches and monasteries to maintain their rights and status with regard to the Orthodox hierarchy, and also in the context of political upheaval: the King of Serbia and the Doge of Venice are among those involved.

1. Diplomata Monasterii S. Mariae, dicti Neamone, in insula Chio
2. Acta Insularum Ionicarum
3. Acta civitatis et ecclesiae Ioanninorum
4. Diplomata et Acta Monasterii S. Joannis Baptistae in Monte Menoeceo apud Serras
5. Diplomata concessa Michaëli Attaliatae et hospitio pauperum ab eo instituto in civitate Rhaedesto
6. Acta Monasterii Sancti Lucae Steriotae in Phocide
7. Diplomata et acta ecclesiae et civitatis Monembasiensis
8. Diplomata et acta Monasterii Sanctae Mariae dicti Megaspelaeon in Peloponneso
9. Acta Monasteriorum Sanctae Mariae Myrsiniotissae et Sancti Michaëlis dicti Prati in insula Lesbo
10. Acta Monasterii in Monte Sinai
11. Privilegia Theodoro Scutariotae concessa
12. Acta varia
13. Typica
14. Appendix.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]