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I. East and West in 1054

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Richard Mayne
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At about 8 a.m. on Saturday, 16 July 1054, mass was being prepared in the church of Santa Sophia in Constantinople. The congregation was gathering; priests, deacons, and acolytes were assembled in the choir. Then, quite unexpectedly, three strangers—three Papal legates—entered the church. Passing through the nave, they made their way to the high altar, where they stopped to address the congregation in a few words of Latin or ill-spoken Greek. Turning, they placed upon the altar a strange document that one of them was carrying; then, in silence, they went back to the doors. Pausing in the narthex, they cried aloud the words: ‘Videat Deus et judicet!’—and with that they passed from the church. For a moment, there was confusion within. One of the subdeacons picked up the document and flung it to the ground; but then, as anger gave way to curiosity, it was recovered and carried to the patriarchal palace. Here, upon examination, it proved to be a bull of deposition and anathema directed against the Patriarch himself.

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39 Edictum (Will, p. 160, 28); Kerull. Ep. spec, ad Petr. Ant. (Will, p. 175, 5); Ep. Encycl. (Will, p. 185, 16). Like Humbert, he took care to anathematize only his particular opponents (Edictum, Will, p. 168, 6). On his previous disputes with Argyros, Ep. spec, ad Petr. Ant. cap. vii (Will, p. 177, 20ff).

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44 Panoplia, ed. Michel, Humbert und Kerull., ii, pp. 41–281; on authorship, Michel, ‘Die Echtheit…’, xxxvi, pp. 168–204; cf. n. 41, and Psellos in nn. 35 and 36, supra.

45 Cf. n. 9, supra.

46 For Leo, Cod. Brux. 1360, ff. 172v–173v (cf. Michel, Humbert und Kerull. i, p. 45); for Frederick, Fragmentum Disputationis, (Will, pp. 254–9, re-ed. Michel, ‘Die Accusatio…‘, pp. 153–208).

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55 Cf. Dialogus, cap. 29 (Will, p. 106b15): ‘salva ergo, ut dignum est, reverentia corporis Domini nostri Jesu Christi et in fermentato et in azymo…’. The Excommunicatio attacks only the symbolism of the Greeks: ‘sicut Manichei inter alia, quodlibet fermentatum fatentur animatum esse.’ Cf. Vita Leonis IX, loc. cit.: ‘haeresis fermentaceorum, quae calumniatur sanctam Romanam sedem, immo omnem Latinam et Occidentalem Ecclesiam, de azymis vivificum Deo offerre sacrificium.’ In this respect, as on the question of beards, Kerullarios unjustly charged the Latins with an intolerance which was his own. Cf. n. 38, supra.

56 Cf. Leo, Ep. ad Petr. Ant. (Will, pp. 168–71 and Michel, Humbert und Kerull. ii, pp. 458–75), which although it includes the Roman creed (with the filioque), nevertheless praises as ‘sanam et catholicam atque orthodoxam’ Peter's own confessio fidei, from which the filioque is lacking (ed. Michel, op. cit. pp. 446–57). Later, however, in the Rationes, the Accusatio, and the Excommunicatio, the question was to assume more prominence.

57 The reference to ‘digamus’ in the Ep. ad Petr. Ant. (Will, p. 170a27), which Michel (op. cit. p. 425) regards as condoning Peter's previous marriage, is an allusion to I Tim. iii. 2, and carries little weight in face of the Excommunicatio, etc.

58 Bréhier, op. cit. p. 113; Herman, art. cit.; Runciman, op. cit. i, p. 97; cf. also n. 54, supra.

59 Cf. Herman, art. cit. p. 211 and n. 3. As Michel has pointed out (‘Die Rechtsgültigkeit…’, p. 194), the Excommunicatio undoubtedly had episcopal, even if not Papal, force: cf. Gregory the Great, Hom. in evang. i, 26, no. 6; Ps-Isidore (Ps-Urban, i, capp. 7 and 8, ed. P. Hinschius (Leipzig, 1863), p. 145; Diversorum sententiae Patrum, Tit. 81 (Michel, A., Die Sentenzen des Kardinals Humbert, das erste Rechtsbuch der päpstlichen Reform (Leipzig, 1943), p. 142, no. 3).Google Scholar

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61 Against Herman, art. cit. pp. 213–14; cf. Michel, ‘Die Rechtsgültigkeit…’, p. 205; Kerull. Ep. spec. adPetr. Ant. cap. vi, Will, p. 177. On Hildebrand, cf. Peter Damian, Ep. 3, 4 ad Heinr. Ravenn. (Migne, Pat. Lat. cxliv, col. 292; Chronicon Casinense, ii, 98 and iii, 12, in M.G.H. SS vii 694, 704).

62 Kerull. Ep. spec. ad Petr. Ant. cap. iii, Will, p. 174, 15.

63 Comment, cap. iii (Will, pp. 151–2); cf. Vita Leonis IX, lib. ii, cap. ix: ‘Itaque gloriosus apostolicus libellum composuit luculentissimum adversus iam dictas praesumptiones et nimias vanitates eorum, conatus illos ad viam veritatis adducere; sed postmodum incorrectos ecclesiastico damnavit anathemate’-followed by relevant excerpts from the Comment., supra. Cf. nn. 3 and 47, supra.

64 Excomm. (Will, p. 153a16).

65 Commem. loc. cit. and Vita Leonis IX, loc. cit.

66 Cf. n. 39, supra.

67 Cf. n. 39, supra.

68 Cf. n. 3, supra.

69 Cf. JL 4334 and JL 4335, in O. von Heinemann, Codex Diplomaticus Anhaltinus (Dessau, 1867–), i, pp. 104–5. The datum of a third document from this period (between 12 February and 19 April 1054), is printed by A. Brackmann, ‘Papsturkunden des Nordens, Nord- und Mittel-Deutschlands’, Nachr. v.d. Gesellsch. d. Wiss. z. Göttingen, Phil. hist. Kl. (1904), p. 121, no. 3. None of these is exactly or even conventionally dated, and the cursus of the first two differs markedly from the normal. Cf. n. 49, supra.

70 Commem. Will, pp. 151b3, 152b8. Cf. n. 14, supra.

71 Cf. n. 18, supra: ‘in osculo pacis accepta orthodoxi imperatoris licentia donisque imperialibus Sancto Petro et sibi.’ According to the Chronicon Casinense (Petrus Diaconus interpolating Leo, M.G.H. SS vii 686), the ‘licentia’ granted to Monte Cassino an annual rent of two pounds in gold. The document itself may be no. 144 in the as yet unpublished Registrum Petri Diaconi; cf. H. Bloch, art. cit. (n. 23, supra), p. 191 n. 88. The Chronicon also records that some of the Emperor's gifts were stolen from the legates by the Count of Teate: but a carved agate said to have been brought back from Constantinople by Humbert was in the possession of the abbey of St Aper in Toul until 1684, when it passed into the Cabinet du Roi at Versailles. Cf. Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions, 1, i (1717), p. 276, with an engraving of the stone.

72 Cf. n. 65, supra.

73 Vita Leonis IX, cap. x and xi. On date, cf. Tritz, art. cit. pp. 219–29, and J. May, Zur Kritik mittelalterlicher Geschichtsquellen, i (Beilage zum Jahresbericht des Gymnasiums Offenburg, 1888–9), pp. 4ff.

74 Chronicon Casinense, iii, 9 (M.G.H. SS vii, 701).

75 Despite the monumental work of Michel, A., Papstwahl und Königsrecht oder das Papstwahlkonkordat von 1059 (Munich, 1936)Google Scholar, and Das Papstwahlpactum von 1059’, H.J. lix (1939). pp. 291351Google Scholar, and the study by H. Bloch cited in n. 23 supra, the whole problem of the Norman alliance, its relation to the Election Decree, and Humbert's part in both, has yet to be systematically explored.