"The present work is the first critical edition and translation of Konstantinos Harmenopoulos ' short treatise on heresies (De haeresibus) and has originally been submitted to the department of Byzantine Studies (LMU Munich) for the completion of the...
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"The present work is the first critical edition and translation of Konstantinos Harmenopoulos ' short treatise on heresies (De haeresibus) and has originally been submitted to the department of Byzantine Studies (LMU Munich) for the completion of the author's M.A. in the summer of 2020. The extended version seeks to place Harmenopoulos' heresiological production in the doctrinal context of the 14th century, thus trying to answer the question: why did Harmenopoulos include a heresiological catalogue in otherwise purely legal manuscripts? The present volume also aims to show that the heresiological genre went beyond antiquarian interests especially because the link between heresy and the law had severe social and political implications. The author's contention is that such catalogues were meant to establish filiations between beliefs considered suspect and heresies that were already condemned by secular or canon law e. g. manichaeism, messalianism. In the case of Harmenopoulos' catalogue, there is no overt antipalamite reference, however, the production of the analysed manuscripts and their historical context, point towards a mild opposition towards the hesychast movement of the 1340's. It was perhaps due to a mild stance against palamism that Konstantinos Harmenopoulos enjoyed such a prolific judicial career after 1351."
