Name: JOÃO PEDRO RODRIGUES DE ANDRADE
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 17/06/2021
Advisor:
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| GILVAN VENTURA DA SILVA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
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| BELCHIOR MONTEIRO LIMA NETO | Internal Examiner * |
| ÉRICA CRISTHYANE MORAIS DA SILVA | Internal Examiner * |
| GILVAN VENTURA DA SILVA | Advisor * |
| HARIADNE DA PENHA SOARES BOCAYUVA | External Examiner * |
Summary: In this dissertation, we investigate the popular action in the dispute that opposed Paul and Macedonius for the bishopric of the city of Constantinople between the years 337 and 360, a clash that is inserted in the so-called Arian Controversy. Beyond its theological bias, the Arian Controversy was developed during the rule of Constantius the Second as a sociopolitical dynamic, affecting the clerical realm as well as the administration of the Roman Empire. The search for establishment as orthodoxy made nicenes and arians compete for the ordination of bishops that represented such standpoints. The popular facet of that conflict took over the streets, squares and churches of Constantinople as sites of fray not only for the theological interpretation of each group but also because of the city´s materiality and quotidian. For such analysis, we rely on The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates, Sozomenus and Theodoret of Cyrus, historiographic works composed in the fifth century that retell the course of christianity since its acceptance as religio licita by Constantine until the kingdom of Theodosius II. The works, besides drawing a prospect of the relation between the Church and the roman State, characterised the popular action as integral part of the strife between arians and nicenes, describing turmoil, riots and mutiny of the townsmen against their peers or episcopal and administrative authorities. Our interpretation of such events is conducted by the concepts of space, according to Alexandre Guida Navarro and Marina Löw, city, worked by José D´Assunção Barros and Jean Paul Lacaze, identity and otherness, both under the perspectives of Kathryn Woodward and Zygmunt Bauman, mixophilia and mixfphobia, by Zygmunt Bauman, conflict, under the eyes of Gianfranco Pasquino, and, lastly, violence, upon the contributions of Hannah Arendt, Roger Dadoun and Mário Stoppino. The methodology employed in our research is based on categorial analysis, a tool that composes the content Analysis, as proposed by Laurence Bardin.
Key words: Late Antiquity. Arianism. Popular action. Constantinople. Conflict. Space.
