The Photian Schism History and Legend by Dvornik, Francis - 1970

E-012: Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Cambridge University Press, London, UK. 1970. Xvi, 504 pgs. Reprint. DJ has light shelf-wear present. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the reverse of the front board and to the title page. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople, has been for a thousand years denounced by the Western Church as an arch-heretic and arch-schismatic of the Church and at the same time venerated in the East as a saint, scholar and a model churchman. Dr Dvornik reviews the whole history, reconsiders all the arguments, reconstitutes the facts, re-examines all the witnesses and comes to the conclusion that in the Photian case the Churchmen, Canonists and historians of the West were mistaken, that Photius was indeed a great churchman. In the second part of his book Dr Dvornik examines the reasons for this miscarriage of justice. E-012; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 520 pages .