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The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence
This is Sir Steven Runciman’s established and widely admired classic account of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, first published in 1968. The Great Church, as the Greeks called the Orthodox Patriarchate, was the spiritual centre of the Byzantine world. The Church’s survival during the four centuries of Turkish rule which followed the fall of Constantinople bore witness...more
Hardcover, 455 pages
Published
December 1st 1985
by Cambridge University Press
(first published 1985)
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This book looks at the Greek Orthodox Church in the years leading up to the Turkish conquest of Constantinople until the Greek War of Independence in the 19th century. It was interesting, and I learned a lot, being interested in Byzantium, but not knowing much about its religious aspects. The book focuses on the period before the Turkish conquest, and then discusses the changes that occurred afterwards. However, the section on the Church in captivity does not follow a chronological approach; rat...more
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The book I am reviewing is The Great church in Captivity by Steven Runciman. The book was published by Cambridge University Press in1968. The book covers the history of the Greek Church, pacifically the Patriarchate of Constantinople, from the fall of Constantinople to the Greek war for independence. Though written by an Englishman the book is wonderful scholarship and written with a good style. The book is divided into two parts Book I & II. Book I mostly discuses the state of the church in...more
There is a reason this 1964 work is in its eighth printing.
Great history of byzantine life
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A King's Scholar at Eton College, he was an exact contemporary and close friend of George Orwell. While there, they both studied French under Aldous Huxley. In 1921 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge as a history scholar and studied under J.B. Bury, becoming, as Runciman later commented, "his first, and only, student." At first the reclusive Bury tried to brush him off; then, when Runciman ment...more
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