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1 Evagrius and His Legacy

2 With special thanks to the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection and the Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, DC.

3 E V A G R I U S and H I S L E G A C Y Edited by JOEL KALVESMAKI and ROBIN DARLING YOUNG University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana

4 Copyright 2016 by the University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana All Rights Reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Kalvesmaki, Joel, editor. Title: Evagrius and his legacy / edited by Joel Kalvesmaki and Robin Darling Young. Description: Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN ISBN (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Evagrius, Ponticus, 345? 399. Classification: LCC BR65.E926 E DDC dc23 LC record available at This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z (Permanence of Paper).

5 C O N T E N T S Abbreviations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Ornament and Intellect of the Desert 1 robin darling young & joel kalvesmaki 1 Evagrius and Cappadocian Orthodoxy 14 brian e. daley, sj 2 Thoughts that Cut: Cutting, Imprinting, and Lingering in Evagrius of Pontus 49 kevin corrigan 3 Evagrius Ponticus, Exegete of the Soul 73 luke dysinger, osb 4 Evagrius and Authority 96 blossom stefaniw 5 Evagrius Ponticus and Maximus the Confessor: The Building of the Self in Praxis and Contemplation 128 julia konstantinovsky 6 The Role of Letters in the Works of Evagrius 154 robin darling young

6 vi Contents 7 Philoxenos of Mabbug and the Simplicity of Evagrian Gnosis: Competing Uses of Evagrius in the Early Sixth Century 175 david a. michelson 8 Evagrius beyond Byzantium: The Latin and Syriac Receptions 206 columba stewart, osb 9 Evagrius: East of the Euphrates 236 anthony j. watson 10 Evagrius in the Byzantine Genre of Chapters 257 joel kalvesmaki 11 Origenism and Anti-Origenism in the Late Sixth and Seventh Centuries 288 dirk krausmüller 12 The Evagrian Heritage in Late Byzantine Monasticism 317 gregory collins, osb Bibliography Select Works of Evagrius 332 Select Editions and Translations of Ancient and Medieval Works 340 Other Primary and Secondary Studies 351 Contributors 377 Index 380

7 A B B R E V I A T I O N S BHL Bibliotheca hagiographica latina antiquitae et mediae aetatis, SubsHag 6 (Brussels, ; new suppl. 1986) BL British Library CCSG Corpus christianorum, Series graeca CCSL Corpus christianorum, Series latina CD Corpus Dionysiacum CFMM Church of the Forty Martyrs (manuscript collection in Mar - din, Turkey) CH Church History CPG Clavis patrum graecorum, ed. M. Geerard and F. Glorie (Turnhout, ) [2nd edition under way, with vol. 3 released in 2003] CPL Clavis patrum latinorum, 3rd ed. (Steenbrug, 1995) CSCO Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium DACL Dictionnaire d archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie DSp Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique et mystique ET English translation FT French translation GCS Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten [drei] Jahrhunderte GNO Hermann Langerbeck, ed., Gregorii Nysseni opera (Leiden, 1960) KG Kephalaia gnostika (Evagrius) LSJ H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, et al., A Greek-English Lexicon (Oxford, 1968) LXX Septuagint MGMT Mor Garbiel Monastery (manuscript collection) vii

8 viii Abbreviations NPNF ODB PG PL PO RB SC SubsHag Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, ed. A. Kazhdan et al. (New York, 1991) Patrologiae cursus completus, Series graeca, ed. J.-P. Migne (Paris, ) Patrologiae cursus completus, Series latina, ed. J.-P. Migne (Paris, ) Patrologia orientalis Reallexikon der Byzantinistik, ed. P. Wirth (Amsterdam, 1968 ) Sources chrétiennes Subsidia hagiographica

9 A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S The editors of this volume wish to thank the institutions and scholars who kindly made possible the meetings in which these essays were first discussed the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection and the University of Notre Dame. At Dumbarton Oaks, Director Jan Ziolkowski and then Director of Byzantine Studies Alice-Mary Talbot generously agreed to cosponsor a two-year, cooperative workshop on Evagrius and his legacy; when Margaret Mullett arrived as Byzantine director, she graciously and enthusiastically accepted the project. At the University of Notre Dame, Charles Barbour offered funding from the fledgling Byzantine Studies program, Kenneth Garcia of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts helped secure additional support, and the staff of the Department of Theology generously assisted with the workshop. Dumbarton Oaks has long had an interest in the religious literature and monastic institutions of Byzantium, as its publications attest for instance, the five-volume Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents, its translations of Byzantine Saints Lives, or its Hagiography Database. Notre Dame s Anastos Collection now housed in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Reading Room and grow - ing program in Byzantine studies prompted a cooperative effort, and this volume is one result. Yet an examination of the work and the legacy of Evagrius was a new project for both institutions. Thus the editors and authors offer this volume as an invitation to further explorations into the fascinating thought of Evagrius and his intellectual heirs. We wish also to thank the participants in the 2012 Roundtable held at Dumbarton Oaks, who helped think through the presentations, along with the respondents to the various sessions there: Elizabeth A. Clark of Duke University, Philip Rousseau and Sidney Griffith of the ix

10 x Acknowledgments Catholic University of America, Susan Ashbrook Harvey of Brown University, and Margaret Mullett. We appreciate the observations of the volume s anonymous reviewers and are grateful to the staff of the University of Notre Dame Press for their work in editing and publishing the book. Finally, we wish especially to recall the kind assistance of the late Remie Constable, former director of the Medieval Institute at Notre Dame. Dumbarton Oaks had been a home in her youth, and she was happy to aid the cooperation between the two institutions. Her memory is dear to her friends and colleagues.