Literary circles in Byzantine iconoclasm : patrons, politics, and saints /
Iconoclasm was the name given to the stance of that portion of eastern Christianity that rejected worshipping God through images (eikones ) representing Christ, the Virgin or the saints and was the official doctrine of the Byzantine Empire for most of the period between 726 and 843. It was a period...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- The Stoudite Milieu : The foundations of the literature of Iconoclasm
- The Methodian Milieu : Literature conceived in the patriarchate after the iconoclast crisis
- The Dekapolitan Milieu : The integration of the Third Way after the restoration of icons
- Secular Milieux and their rewriting of the Second Iconoclasm : the aristocracy, the army, the court and the imperial family
- The Ignatian Milieu : The management of inherited iconodule literature
- The Photian Milieu: rewriting and updating of the iconodule literature
- Mobility between milieu : The hagiographer Sabas, from the Bithynian Olympos to the Constantinopolitan Milieux
- Final remarks.