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The Acts of the Early Church Councils - Production and Character (Hardcover)
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The Acts of the Early Church Councils - Production and Character (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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The Acts of Early Church Councils Acts examines the acts of ancient
church councils as the objects of textual practices, in their
editorial shaping, and in their material conditions. It traces the
processes of their production, starting from the recording of
spoken interventions during a meeting, to the preparation of
minutes of individual sessions, to their collection into larger
units, their storage and the earliest attempts at their
dissemination. Thomas Graumann demonstrates that the preparation of
'paperwork' is central for the bishops' self-presentation and the
projection of prevailing conciliar ideologies. The councils'
aspirations to legitimacy and authority before real and imagined
audiences of the wider church and the empire, and for posterity,
fundamentally reside in the relevant textual and bureaucratic
processes. Council leaders and administrators also scrutinized and
inspected documents and records of previous occasions. From the
evidence of such examinations the volume further reconstructs the
textual and physical characteristics of ancient conciliar documents
and explores the criteria of their assessment. Reading strategies
prompted by the features observed from material textual objects
handled in council, and the opportunities and limits afforded by
the techniques of 'writing-up' conciliar business are analysed.
Papyrological evidence and contemporary legal regulations are used
to contextualise these efforts. The book thus offers a unique
assessment of the production processes, character and the material
conditions of council acts that must be the foundation for any
historical and theological research into the councils of the
ancient church.
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