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Chapter 6 - The Photian Milieu

Rewriting and Updating Iconodule Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2021

Óscar Prieto Domínguez
Óscar Prieto Domínguez
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Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
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The inevitable topicality of Iconoclasm. Iconoclasm in the work of the patriarch Photios. Photios and the iconodule patriarchs: Tarasios, Nikephoros, and Methodios. Photios, his family, and their presence in the literature on Iconoclasm. The epistles of Photios and the new orthodox discourse. The milieu of Photios: The interpolation of the vita of Georgios of Amastris. The vita of Michael Synkellos and the Monastery of Chora. Theophanes of Caesarea and his enkomion of Theodoros Graptos. Georgios of Nikomedeia. The monk and philosopher Nikephoros. The 42 martyrs of Amorion again: Sophronios and Euodios. The Acta of David, Symeon and Georgios (BHG 494).

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PatriarchPhotiosIconoclasmTarasiosNikephorosMethodiosvita of Georgios of Amastrisvita of Michael SynkellosTheophanes of CaesareaGeorgios of Nikomedeia42 martyrs of Amorion.
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Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm
Patrons, Politics and Saints
 , pp. 330 - 390
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • The Photian Milieu
  • Óscar Prieto Domínguez, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
  • Book: Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm
  • Online publication: 21 January 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108868129.007
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  • Óscar Prieto Domínguez, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
  • Book: Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm
  • Online publication: 21 January 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108868129.007
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  • The Photian Milieu
  • Óscar Prieto Domínguez, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
  • Book: Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm
  • Online publication: 21 January 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108868129.007
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