79 Cat 34.370383

80 Vie 38.710.

81 Vie 38.10–18.

82 Vie 39.1–5.

83 Vie 39.611.

84 Vie 39–40.

85 Nicetas Stiphat, born about 1005, was a novice of the Studite monastery from the age of fourteen. Already in his old age, he became the abbot of the monastery and died around 1090. He is known for his treatises on mystical theology, of which the most significant are the three Centurions of Active, Natural, and Gnostic Chapters (P. G. 120.8511009), as well as the treatises On the Soul, On Paradise, and On the Hierarchy, edited by the assomptionist A. A. Darrouzes in Sources Chretiennes 81 (1961). He is no less famous for his participation in the conflict between Patriarch Michael Cellurarius and Cardinal Humbert in 1054, when he wrote a number of anti-Latin pamphlets, mainly on unleavened bread. Nikita knew St. Simeon well in the last years of his life, when he became his disciple. He wrote the Life of his spiritual father around 1053-1054, that is, 30-50 years or even more after the events he describes. Cm. about him: Hausherr. Vie de Symeon, Introduction, 6. Nicetas Stethatos et ses idees sur la saintete pp. XXIII???? II and especially Völker: Nicetas Stethatos als mystischer Shriftsteller und sein Verhaltnis zu Symeon dem Neuen Theologen in his large book: Praxis und Theoria... 456–489. Wiesbaden. 1974.

86 Vie 44.14–29

87 Vie 59.415.

88 Vie 59.15–16.

89 Vie 59.17–20.

90 Vie 60–67.

91 Hausher. Introduction. L'adversaire: Etienne de Nicomedie, pp. LI–LVI

92 Vie 74.512.

93 Cedrenus P.G. 122.153 AB.

94 Vie 74.12–23.

95 Vie 73.2–6.

96 Vie 75.16–23.