tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post1531951998393783842..comments2023-10-04T09:50:08.070-05:00Comments on Logismoi: 'Vouchsafed the Intelligence of the Rhetors'—St Maximus the GreekAaron Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-66484357831340426012010-02-08T22:29:09.356-06:002010-02-08T22:29:09.356-06:00Interesting. I might have to get in touch with her...Interesting. I might have to get in touch with her. I'll also have to have a more careful look at the Greek bio I have and see if it's touched upon there.Aaron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-82297836176155857352010-02-08T19:07:26.351-06:002010-02-08T19:07:26.351-06:00Mother Nectaria does not say. She includes Obolens...Mother Nectaria does not say. She includes Obolensky's book in her bibliography and acknowledges that this detail is not in the hagiography. Mother Nectaria then says that "but we do know it was John Lascares...etc."David Robleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08235222579213199067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-78958198214971287122010-02-08T19:05:42.865-06:002010-02-08T19:05:42.865-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.David Robleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08235222579213199067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-72395312041077908622010-02-08T14:12:13.684-06:002010-02-08T14:12:13.684-06:00Huh, I wonder where she got that from? Does she ci...Huh, I wonder where she got that from? Does she cite any sources? Obolensky acts as though there's no evidence at all about why he went to Vatopaidi.Aaron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-11173725693177670422010-02-08T14:04:00.963-06:002010-02-08T14:04:00.963-06:00Hi Aaron:
Welcome back! I hope we get a fu...Hi Aaron:<br /> Welcome back! I hope we get a full report on your trip:-)<br />Yes, St Maximos brief excursion into Roman Catholicism (he received monastic tonsure as a Dominican)is mentioned in page 109 of Evlogite.<br />We are told also that it was John Lascares who turned Michael's (St Maximos) attention back to the east, and who encouraged him to go to Vatopaidi.David Robleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08235222579213199067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-38147943842441888832010-02-08T10:14:31.262-06:002010-02-08T10:14:31.262-06:00Thank you for pointing this out, David. I've l...Thank you for pointing this out, David. I've looked at <i>Evlogite</i> before, and read and used parts of it, but never seen the chapter on Arta before. Does she mention the Dominican thing by any chance?Aaron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-51100882494209963352010-02-05T10:06:52.295-06:002010-02-05T10:06:52.295-06:00I should mention that in the book 'Evlogite...I should mention that in the book 'Evlogite', Mother Nectaria Mclees offers a 6 page summary of the life of St Maximos, p.108-114, when she describes her visit to Arta, Greece. Arta is the birth place of St Maximos. In 1997 the Moscow Patriarchate sent relics to Arta which are now enshrined and available for veneration in the Church of St George at #13 Skoyfa street.David Robleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08235222579213199067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-36337046845245262342010-02-04T13:33:16.878-06:002010-02-04T13:33:16.878-06:00St Maximos the Greek is one of my favorite saints....St Maximos the Greek is one of my favorite saints.<br />You name many sources on his life I did not know about. 'Six Byzantine Portraits' sounds very interesting. I guess some book shopping is overdue. Thanks.David Robleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08235222579213199067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-59197367297953452212010-02-03T13:48:35.332-06:002010-02-03T13:48:35.332-06:00Yeah, St Maxim is definitely extremely cool. I lik...Yeah, St Maxim is definitely extremely cool. I like how the beard covers his entire upper torso like a massive bib.Aaron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-47721263003648684862010-02-03T13:35:46.137-06:002010-02-03T13:35:46.137-06:00The Haney volume is available here:
http://www.am...The Haney volume is available here:<br /><br />http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B0000E7J2K <br /><br />Perhaps some kind benefactor could purchase it and send it to Aaron.<br /><br />Since my reading concerning Sts. Nil and Joseph last year, and discovering the defense of the legacy of Nil and skete monasticism by St. Maxim. I think St. Maxim may be my favorite saint in the Russian tradition. If for no other reason, that beard on the icon you posted last year may be the best in Orthodox iconography.Ochlophobist https://www.blogger.com/profile/13751003558600087713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-7786702315452985032010-02-03T11:20:34.617-06:002010-02-03T11:20:34.617-06:00Thanks for mentioning that. It didn't even occ...Thanks for mentioning that. It didn't even occur to me to look for other books mentioned in the Gregoriou volume, but I see they've cited that one, another of the same year called <i>Maximos o Graikos o protos photistis ton Roson</i>, plus an earlier book by Papamichael called <i>I prosopikotis Maximou tou Graikou</i>, 'The personality of Maximus the Greek'. Unfortunately though, while they do have a list of the works of St Maximus, the Gregoriou book does not have a bibliography of secondary sources.Aaron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-12213395271645031052010-02-03T11:07:40.264-06:002010-02-03T11:07:40.264-06:00I was just reading about St. Maximus the other day...I was just reading about St. Maximus the other day in the book <i>Russian Mystics</i> by Sergius Bolshakoff, but there was only a few paragraphs. I'll have to make reading Obolensky's Portraits a higher priority.<br /><br />On the subject of books in Greek, Bulshakoff notes that "the most exhaustive work on Maximus the Greek" is G. Papamichael, <i>Maximos Graikos</i>, which was published in Athens in 1951.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06922659552731758823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-15579059800004868012010-02-03T07:31:38.066-06:002010-02-03T07:31:38.066-06:00I don't know if anyone noticed, but this post ...I don't know if anyone noticed, but this post was up for several hours with an interesting typo in place: 'St Dimitri Obolensky'. It's now been corrected!Aaron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.com