On behalf of Daphne Penna (Legal History Department), we bring the
following lecture to your attention:
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Dear all,
On *Thursday, April 9th* emeritus Professor E. Chrysos will give a lecture
on "Minors as Patriarchs and Popes".
Time: *16.00*
Place: Legal History department, room 157 (building 1323), Turftorenstraat
21.
You are all invited to the lecture and for drinks after.
*A few words about the subject and the speaker:*
At the time of their election and ordination some of the patriarchs of
Constantinople and some popes of Rome in the ninth and tenth century were
minors, that is under the canonically prescribed age of thirty years. This
was possible because these persons were sons of the incumbent political
leaders, the Emperor in Constantinople or the ruling Princes and senators
of Rome of the notorious family of the counts of Tusculum or the Saxon
emperors of the Ottonian dynasty. These cases manifest the particular
intention of the political rulers to keep the highest ecclesiastical
authority under their imminent control.
*Evangelos Chrysos* is emeritus Professor of Byzantine History at the
University of Athens. He studied at the Universities of Thessaloniki and
Bonn (PhD 1966). Before Athens he taught for many years at the Universities
of Ioannina and Cyprus and was visiting Professor at Universities in
Austria, France, Germany and the United States. He is corr. Member of the
Austrian Academy. His research focuses on themes concerning the
international and diplomatic history, historical geography, the political
and ecclesiastical administration and the function of Church councils.
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