Leo VI and the transformation of Byzantine Christian identity : writings of an unexpected emperor /
The Byzantine emperor Leo VI (886-912), was not a general or even a soldier, like his predecessors, but a scholar, and it was the religious education he gained under the tutelage of the patriarch Photios that was to distinguish him as an unusual ruler. This book analyzes Leo's literary output,...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- The reign of Leo VI
- Romans imitating Saracens?
- The Byzantine Christian approach to war
- The ideal Christian general
- A new Solomon
- Imperial sacrality in action
- Leo VI as homilist
- Byzantines as chosen people
- Byzantine Christian statecraft.