Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

section one intellectual context

Introduction

Chapter One. Demetrius' Intellectual Background

1.1. The Primary Context: The Byzantine Background

1.2. The Secondary Context: Western Texts

1.2.1. Demetrius' Latin Studies

1.2.2. The Evidence

TheWriters/Texts

Aquinas

Augustinian Texts

Boethius

Further texts

1.2.3. The Western Material: Observations

section two ideas and preoccupations

Introduction

The Sources: Demetrius' Writings to c. 1371

Chapter Two. The Political Sphere

2.1. Demetrius' Understanding of Imperial Office and His Relationship with His Imperial Patrons

2.2. Foreign Policy (Excluding Relations with the Latin West)

2.2.1. The Turkish Threat

2.2.2. Bulgarians and Serbs

2.2.3. Hungarians and Mongols

2.3. Foreign Policy: The Latins

Chapter Three. The Religious Sphere

3.1. Key Principles and Ideas

3.1.1. Faith and Revelation

3.1.2. The Sources of Revelation: Interplay of Scripture, 'Fathers' and 'Councils'

3.1.3. Methodology: Infallibility and Fallibility; Determining Authoritative Sources

3.1.4. Methodology: Defending the Latins

3.1.5. Methodology:The Status of Human Reason

3.1.6. 'Fathers' and 'Councils': Practical Issues

3.2. Specific Issues

3.2.1. The Church, East and West

3.2.2. The Filioque

3.2.3. Palamas

section three historical context and implications

Introduction

Chapter Four. The Extent of 'Publicity'

4.1. Channels for Circulation

4.1.1. The Manuscript Evidence

4.1.2. Further Evidence of Circulation

4.2. Political Themes

4.2.1. Demetrius and His Imperial Patrons

4.2.2. Foreign Policy

The Turkish Threat

International Relations (Excluding the Latins)

International Relations: The Latins

4.3. Religious Themes

4.3.1. General Attitudes to the West, Including the Papacy

4.3.2. Specific Doctrinal Issues

The Filioque

Palamism, Philotheos and the Hesychasts

4.4. Normative Relations

Conclusions

Chapter Five. Contextualising Demetrius' Pro-western Approach

Introduction

5.1. The General Background: Byzantine-papal/Byzantine-Latin Relations

5.2. Demetrius' Role in Developments

5.3. The Credibility of the Pro-western Propaganda

Chapter Six. Orthodox Developments

Introduction

6.1. Divisions within Orthodoxy

6.1.1. The Hesychast Background

6.1.2. The Repercussions of the Civil War

6.1.3. Philotheos and Demetrius in the Late 1360s

6.2. Indications of Strength?

6.2.1. 'Orthodox Universalism' and Relations with Other Orthodox Sees

Serbia/Peç

Bulgaria/Trnovo

Russia/Kiev

6.2.2. 'International Hesychasm'

Conclusions

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

General Index

Manuscripts mentioned

Index of Letters of Demetrius Kydones cited

Original works of named authors/translations cited in the text