Article
French
ID: <
10.4000/rsr.2803>
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DOI: <
10.4000/rsr.2803>
Abstract
The establishment of Ottoman power in Asia Minor and Greece is certainly not an uncontested reality in the 13th- and 14th centuries ; indeed, tensions existed both within Islam and within the spheres of Byzantine power. In the Christian writings of this period, a better knowledge of sources has shed some light on the complex relations between Islam and Christianity. In the middle of the 14th century, the testimony of the action and works of Gregory Palamas, once prisoner of the Turks, and John VI Cantacuzene, emperor before becoming a monk, shows that at a religious level, attempts at dialogue existed. The apology of the Christian faith and the severe criticism of the “other” are however dominant, whilst a certain political pragmatism leads to alliances with the new power.