The paper deals with the problem of relations between Poland and the Byzantine Empire, from 1018 to ca.1132. As is commonly known, the relations in question were not very intense; on the contrary, they were, on the whole, limited and incidental. They, however, as Professor Przemysław Marciniak stated, “culminated in the Battle of Varna, when,…
At the end of the 11th century Alexios I Komnenos founded a Latin monastery in the town of Kivotos, on the coast of the Gulf of Nicomedia. The monastery was placed under his protection and the jurisdiction of the abbot of Cluny and of the Cluniac monastery of Charité-sur-Loire. According to the “Qualiter tabula S….
Au début du XIIe siècle, un homme se présenta à la cour d’Alexis Comnène à Constantinople et prononça un discours devant l’empereur et ses théologiens réunis. Cet homme, Pierre Grossolano, archevêque de Milan, défendit avec vigueur la position latine sur le filioque. Son intervention impressionna : les théologiens présents s’empressèrent de composer des réfutations, et…