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Josef-- Thank you very much indeed for taking the trouble to trace the transmission of this text. Fascinating! JAB At 03:18 PM 1/4/00 -0500, you wrote: > >> >> >>James A. Brundage wrote: >> Could you give me a more precise reference on this? Which canon of 2 >>Nicaea did this? I took a hasty glance through the text in _Conciliorum >>oecumenicorum decreta_ and didn't see anything of the sort, but perhaps my >>glance was too hasty. >> >> > >Professor Brundage: > Having so often depended upon your own works for unfaltering guidance,I >can with no hesitation assert that your glance may be incapable of being hasty. >On the other hand even a careful examination of the Canons of II Nicea >would be unlikely to reveal the path by which the the decrees of the local >synod of 631 were subsumed. > My inital source for the reference to II Nicaea as affirming the practice >of "one liturgy, one priest, one altar, in one day", is the Kanonikon etoi >Apantes oi ieroi kai Theioi Kanones, 5th edition, Athens, 1908. The 1908 >edition was a reprint of the revised edition of 1801, which was itself a >revision of the first edition of 1800 compiled under Theodoret. The 1801 >revision, consisted of a correction, re-compilation, and indexing by the >monks Agapius and Nikodemos. This Kanonikon is later, and more commonly >known as the Pedalion. > Closer examination of the Kanonikon's citation reveals an attribution and >transmission path which hovers precariously close to exegetical suicide. >Nonetheless, here is how the Kanonikon traces it: >1.Agapius and Nikodemos are primarily dependent upon the preambles and >explications/interpretations of Ioannis Zonaras ( fl. 1118, during the >reign of Alexios Comnenos) and Theodoros Balsamon ( late XIIthc__ 1185-1203 >fl., during the reign of Manual Comnenos. > >2. Balsamon, who was the Nomophylact [interpretation and observance of the >Kanons] and Cartophylax [archivist] of the Great Church at >Constantinople,used Zonaras as his main source, following his principle >attributions to the point of wholesale incorporation of Zonaras. > >3. Agapius and Nikodeomos are dependent as well upon Balsamon's >"Canonical Questions and Answers" ( 1203) >4. Agapius also cites Matthew Blastaris ( Vlastaris) [fl. 1335] as affirming >both Zonaras and Balsamon. > >5.Given the above lineage, the following transmission through II Nicaea was >cited: > A) Beginning with Kanon VIII of the Sixth Ecumenical Council (Quinisext): >"With a desire to hold securely to whatever our Holy Fathers have decreed, >in everything, we hereby renew the Kanon prescribing that synods or >councils of the Bishops in each province must be held every year...ff." > [ Cf: Apost. Kan. XXXVII; Kanon V of Nicaea I; K.XIX of Fourth > Ecum. Coun.(Chalcedon); Kanon XX of Antioch; XXVI, LXXXI, LXXXIV, LXXXV, > and CIV of Carthage. > >through to: > B) II Nicaea: Kanon VI: > "Since there already existsa Kanon which says that Canonical discussions >must be held twice a year in each province through an Assemby of >Bishops.....ff". > >and, I gather, heavily dependent upon > II Nicaea: Kanon XIV: > " It is perfectly plain to everyone that order reigns in the Church, > and that it is pleasing to God for the transactions of the Priesthood > to be maintained with rigorousness. Since, then...ff." > [See; Kanon XXXIII of Sixth Ecum. Coun. and Kanon XXII > of Carthage.] > >6. Since each Ecumenical Council affirms in preamble and colophon the >decrees of the councils previously named Universal or Ecumenical, it >appears evident to Zonaras, Balsamon, and Blastaris ( and hence to Agapius >and Nikodemos) that >II Nicaea's decrees affirm the "one liturgy, one priest, one altar, in one day" >practice/ruling. > As I reiterate, although I am a Medievalist and Eccleiastical Historian, >I am not a specialist in Canon law. Nonetheless, in the light(?) of the >exegetical grand jette outlined above ( or more appropriately hermeneutical >economia) in the Kanonikon, the concept of "altar fatigue" posited by >Christopher Crockett seems, well___ reasonable. > I will attempt to search out additional seconday references on this >material in the next few days, and pass on what I find. >I hope this has hepled. >Josef Gulka > >Josef Gulka >[log in to unmask] >215- 732-8420 James A. Brundage History & Law University of Kansas <[log in to unmask]> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%