Literary circles in Byzantine iconoclasm : patrons, politics and saints / Óscar Prieto Domínguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prieto Domínguez, Óscar, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byzantine literature--History and criticism.

Byzantine literature.

Literature and society--Byzantine Empire.

Literature and society.

Iconoclasm in literature.

Byzantine Empire--Politics and government.

Byzantine Empire.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 542 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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Summary:

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.

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

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ISBN:

9781108868129

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