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Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm
Patrons, Politics and Saints
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About this book
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 marked by violent passions on either side. This is the first comprehensive account of the extant contemporary texts relating to this phenomenon and their impact on society, politics and identity. By examining the literary circles emerging both during the time of persecution and immediately after the restoration of icons in 843, the volume casts new light on the striking (re)construction of Byzantine society, whose iconophile identity was biasedly redefined by the political parties led by Theodoros Stoudites, Gregorios Dekapolites and Empress Theodora or the patriarchs Methodios, Ignatios and Photios. It thereby offers an innovative paradigm for approaching Byzantine literature.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Figures and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Note to the Reader
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Stoudite Milieu: The Foundations of the Literature of Iconoclasm
- Chapter 2 The Methodian Milieu: Literature Conceived in the Patriarchate after the Iconoclastic Crisis
- Chapter 3 The Dekapolitan Milieu: The Integration of the Third Way after the Restoration of Icons
- Chapter 4 The Secular Milieux and Their Rewriting of the Second Iconoclasm: The Aristocracy, the Army, the Court and the Imperial Family
- Chapter 5 The Ignatian Milieu: The Management of Inherited Iconodule Literature
- Chapter 6 The Photian Milieu: Rewriting and Updating Iconodule Literature
- Chapter 7 Mobility between Milieux: The Hagiographer Sabas, from the Bithynian Olympos to the Constantinopolitan Milieux
- Chapter 8 Final Remarks
- Appendix A Chronology of the Patriarchs, Emperors, Popes and Hegoumenoi of Stoudios from 787 to 896
- Appendix B Network Chart of Writers and Their Literary Relations under Iconoclasm and in Its Aftermath
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Manuscripts
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