Free Download Jeff Brubaker, "The Disputatio of the Latins and the Greeks, 1234: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary "
English | ISBN: 1835536697 | 2024 | 248 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In 1234, four mendicant friars arrived in the Byzantine city of Nicaea to discuss the possibility of a union between the Greek and Roman Churches. The controversy over the specific differences in both doctrine and practice had taken on a new urgency in the thirteenth century. The Fourth Crusade in 1204 placed the Byzantine capital of Constantinople under Latin control, creating an atmosphere of nearly continuous conflict, and yet the two sides agreed to meet in hopes of a peaceful settlement.
