"On the Beliefs of the Greeks" : Leo Allatios and Popular Orthodoxy.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Approaching Orthodox Popular Religion -- The Problems of Mediating between Traditions -- A Model for the Investigation of Orthodox Popular Religion -- Chapter Two: The Sources for Orthodox Popular Religion -- The De Graecorum hodie quorundam opinationibus of Leo Allatios -- The Text -- Sources Contained in the De Graecorum hodie quorundam opinationibus -- Other Sources for the Investigation of Popular Orthodoxy in the Early Modern Period -- Nomokanones -- Professions of Faith and Greek Writings on the State of the Church -- Demonological Texts -- Western Travellers -- Folklore -- Chapter Three: Leo Allatios: His Life and Influences -- Biography -- Intellectual Influences -- Antiquarianism -- Ecumenism -- Demons and Nature: Medicine and Neoplatonic Philosophy -- Chapter Four: The Gello and Popular Religion -- The Nature of the Gello -- The Gello and the Church -- The Gello and Iconoclasm -- Protection against the Gello -- Chapter Five: The Gello and Baptism -- The Gello and the Power of Baptism -- Allatios' Understanding of the Relationship between the Gello and Baptism -- The Ambiguous Position of the New-Born Child -- Birth and Pollution -- Birth, Baptism and the Transitional Period -- Chapter Six: The Gello and Marriage -- The Importance of Marriage -- Popular Beliefs and Practices Surrounding Marriage -- Gelloudes, Nereides and the Female Nature -- The Gello and the Destructive Force of Envy -- The Gello, Envy and Marital Status -- Witchcraft and Allatios' Understanding of the Gello -- Problems Surrounding Orthodox Marriage in the Seventeenth-Century -- Chapter Seven: The Vrykolakas -- The Revenant in Seventeenth-Century Greek Society -- The Vrykolakas -- Ecclesiastical Approaches to the Vrykolakas -- The Popular Approach to the Vrykolakas.

Chapter Eight: The Tympaniaios -- The Tympaniaios and the Doctrine of Purgatory -- Sin and the Afterlife: the Orthodox Perspective -- Developments Affecting the Orthodox Interpretation of the Tympaniaios -- The Orthodox Laity and the Catholic Church -- The Tympaniaios and the Jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church -- The Tympaniaios and the Vrykolakas -- Allatios' Interpretation of the Orthodox Revenants -- Chapter Nine: Allatios and Popular Healing -- Demons and Disease -- Popular Unction in the De opinationibus -- The Orthodox Sacrament of Unction -- The Relationship between the Orthodox Sacrament of Unction and Popular Practice -- Allatios and Popular Practices -- Verification of Religious Healing: Allatios' Own Experience -- Chapter Ten: Allatios and the Stoicheion -- Allatios' Text and its Medical Context -- The Neoplatonic Outlook of Allatios -- The Stoicheion -- Neoplatonism in the West -- Neoplatonism and the De Graecorum hodie quorundam opinationibus -- Conclusion -- The Focus of the De Opinationibus -- Allatios' Approach to Popular Religion -- Allatios and the Relationship between Popular and Official Orthodoxy -- The De Opinationibus and Wider Scholarship -- Conspectus of Sources -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

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