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The period of Byzantine iconoclasm remains in many ways a Dark Age. In this volume, the author continues her re-examination of a key source for the time, the Life of Stephen the Younger, aiming to establish a solid methodology for reading a hagiographical text as a historical source. She includes a systematic literary analysis to illuminate how the author treated his subject matter. Amongst other conclusions, the study shows how the historical presentation of the period was consciously shaped by the patriarchate of Constantinople in the years 787-815, in order to affirm the independence of...

This volume is a primary source for the history of the first byzantine iconoclasm (730-787) and the iconodoulic reaction (787-8150). The Life of Stephen the Younger, written in 809 by a deacon of St Sophia, offers a vivid portrayal of the reign of the iconoclast emperor Constantine V - the so called Christian emperor who destroyed Christ's image, against Stephen, the monk, who defended Christ until martyrdom. The author shows that this manichean presentation is not confirmed by other contemporary sources, which show that Stephen's opposition to Constantine was as political as it was...

The Life of Stephen the Younger is one of the rare sources for Byzantium in the Dark Ages and one of the key witnesses to the history of Iconoclasm. This book presents a new edition of the text, together with a French translation and commentary, and an important introduction. Stephen was a hermit, killed in 765 at the order of the emperor Constantine V; his Life was written in 809, some forty years after the 7th Ecumenical Council, Nicaea II, at which Orthodoxy was affirmed. Professor Auzepy shows how the Life reflects the politics of the era, both those of the patriarchate on which the...