Oscar Prieto Dominguez (Spain Universidad de Salamanca)

Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 556
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 139mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 786g
• ISBN-13: 9781108811828
• ISBN-10: 1108811825
• Artikelnr.: 63459318

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.