Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm: Patrons, Politics and Saints

ISBN-13: 9781108811828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 558 str.

Spain) Prieto Dominguez Oscar (Universidad de Salamanca

Opis

Explores the literary texts produced during Byzantine Iconoclasm and their use as ideological tools by the main political circles.

Recenzje

'This is an impressive and lengthy book which deserves careful consideration given its focus on the period of the iconoclastic controversy.' Francesca Dell'Acqua, Speculum

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The Stoudite Milieu: the foundations of the literature of Iconoclasm; 2. The Methodian Milieu: literature conceived in the patriarchate after the iconoclast crisis; 3. The Dekapolitan Milieu: the integration of the third way after the restoration of icons; 4. Secular Milieux and their rewriting of the second Iconoclasm: the aristocracy, the army, the court and the imperial family; 5. The Ignatian Milieu: the management of inherited Iconodule literature; 6. The Photian Milieu: rewriting and updating of the Iconodule literature; 7. Mobility between Milieux: the hagiographer Sabas, from the Bithynian Olympos to the Constantinopolitan Milieux; 8. Final remarks.