Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm - Patrons, Politics and Saints

The first book to comprehensively examine the literature of Byzantine Iconoclasm and its aftermath not as isolated phenomena, but within their own social, cultural and political contexts. Argues for the key role played by literary circles emerging both during the persecution and immediately after the restoration of icons in 843.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Óscar Prieto Domínguez is a Lecturer in Greek Language and Literature at the University of Salamanca, Spain. He works on literary, historical and philological aspects of Greek literary production of Late Antiquity and the Middle Byzantine Ages and is the author of Casia de Constantinopla. Poemas (2019) and Literature Squared. Self-Reflexivity in Late Antique Literature (2020).

Product details

• Authors: Oscar (Universidad De Salamanca Prieto Dominguez, Óscar Prieto Domínguez
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781108491303
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49130-3
• No. of pages: 420
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; European History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval