Die Vorstellung vom Norden und der Eurozentrismus. Eine Auswertung der patristischen und mittelalterlichen Literatur (review)

Abstract

enables him to chart the developing interplay between it and church history, one of the most significant factors in the last century: we can no longer study the latter in blissful isolation, but must let texts and sites, theologians, historians, and archaeologists, interact. His judgments are generally fair, if he can be critical. Harnack he sees as making a fundamental contribution to the study of church history, taking it far beyond the confines of dusty doctrine, if no archaeologist. Lietzmann he presents, again like Harnack, as a staunch Lutheran and a man of the Church, who not only successfully combined a study of history, archaeology, and liturgy, but also was responsible for some key series of scholarly aids covering both the New Testament and the early Church.The lesserknown Gsell is rightly lauded for his painstaking and uniquely valuable contribution to the history, geography, and archaeology of early Christian North Africa, and useful detail of later scholarly developments in the field is supplied. Ramsay’s pioneering work in Asia Minor and Phrygia and its continuing relevance, despite his dated political judgments, are duly recognized. Duchesne’s judicious balance between history and the development of doctrine, despite his bitter struggles with Roman Catholic authority, and his recent rehabilitation, are sympathetically sketched. Finally Baynes’ contributions to patristic as well as Byzantine scholarship are sympathetically presented.