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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C O N T E N T S

Abbreviations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: The Ornament and Intellect of the Desert 1robin darling young & joel kalvesmaki

1 Evagrius and Cappadocian Orthodoxy 14brian e. daley, sj

2 Thoughts that Cut: Cutting, Imprinting, and Lingering in Evagrius of Pontus 49kevin corrigan

3 Evagrius Ponticus, Exegete of the Soul 73luke dysinger, osb

4 Evagrius and Authority 96blossom stefaniw

5 Evagrius Ponticus and Maximus the Confessor: The Building of the Self in Praxis and Contemplation 128julia konstantinovsky

6 The Role of Letters in the Works of Evagrius 154robin 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 175david a. michelson

8 Evagrius beyond Byzantium: The Latin and Syriac Receptions 206columba stewart, osb

9 Evagrius: East of the Euphrates 236anthony j. watson

10 Evagrius in the Byzantine Genre of Chapters 257joel kalvesmaki

11 Origenism and Anti-Origenism in the Late Sixth and Seventh Centuries 288dirk krausmüller

12 The Evagrian Heritage in Late Byzantine Monasticism 317gregory 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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A B B R E V I A T I O N S

BHL Bibliotheca hagiographica latina antiquitae et mediae aetatis,SubsHag 6 (Brussels, 1898– 1911; new suppl. 1986)

BL British LibraryCCSG Corpus christianorum, Series graecaCCSL Corpus christianorum, Series latinaCD Corpus DionysiacumCFMM Church of the Forty Martyrs (manuscript collection in Mar -

din, Turkey)CH Church HistoryCPG 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 orientaliumDACL Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de liturgieDSp Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique et mystiqueET English translationFT French translationGCS Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten [drei]

JahrhunderteGNO 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 SeptuagintMGMT Mor Garbiel Monastery (manuscript collection)

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NPNF Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers seriesODB 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 orientalisRB Reallexikon der Byzantinistik, ed. P. Wirth (Amsterdam,

1968– )SC Sources chrétiennesSubsHag Subsidia hagiographica

viii Abbreviations

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A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

The editors of this volume wish to thank the institutions and scholarswho kindly made possible the meetings in which these essays were firstdiscussed—the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collectionand the University of Notre Dame. At Dumbarton Oaks, Director JanZiolkowski and then– Director of Byzantine Studies Alice-Mary Tal-bot generously agreed to cosponsor a two-year, cooperative workshopon 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 fundingfrom the fledgling Byzantine Studies program, Kenneth Garcia of theInstitute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts helped secure additionalsupport, and the staff of the Department of Theology generously as-sisted with the workshop. Dumbarton Oaks has long had an interest inthe religious literature and monastic institutions of Byzantium, as itspublications attest—for instance, the five-volume Byzantine MonasticFoundation Documents, its translations of Byzantine Saints’ Lives,or its Hagiography Database. Notre Dame’s Anastos Collection—nowhoused in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Reading Room—and grow -ing program in Byzantine studies prompted a cooperative effort, andthis volume is one result. Yet an examination of the work and the legacyof Evagrius was a new project for both institutions. Thus the editors andauthors offer this volume as an invitation to further explorations into thefascinating thought of Evagrius and his intellectual heirs.

We wish also to thank the participants in the 2012 Roundtable heldat 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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Catholic University of America, Susan Ashbrook Harvey of BrownUniversity, and Margaret Mullett. We appreciate the observations ofthe volume’s anonymous reviewers and are grateful to the staff of theUniversity of Notre Dame Press for their work in editing and publish-ing the book. Finally, we wish especially to recall the kind assistanceof the late Remie Constable, former director of the Medieval Instituteat Notre Dame. Dumbarton Oaks had been a home in her youth, andshe was happy to aid the cooperation between the two institutions.Her memory is dear to her friends and colleagues.

x Acknowledgments

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