Book contents
- Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm
- Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Note to the Reader
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Stoudite Milieu
- Chapter 2 The Methodian Milieu
- Chapter 3 The Dekapolitan Milieu
- Chapter 4 The Secular Milieux and Their Rewriting of the Second Iconoclasm
- Chapter 5 The Ignatian Milieu
- Chapter 6 The Photian Milieu
- Chapter 7 Mobility between Milieux
- Chapter 8 Final Remarks
- Book part
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Manuscripts
Chapter 2 - The Methodian Milieu
Literature Conceived in the Patriarchate after the Iconoclastic Crisis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2021
- Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm
- Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Note to the Reader
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Stoudite Milieu
- Chapter 2 The Methodian Milieu
- Chapter 3 The Dekapolitan Milieu
- Chapter 4 The Secular Milieux and Their Rewriting of the Second Iconoclasm
- Chapter 5 The Ignatian Milieu
- Chapter 6 The Photian Milieu
- Chapter 7 Mobility between Milieux
- Chapter 8 Final Remarks
- Book part
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Manuscripts
Summary
The literary work of Methodios. Early works: non-combative writings: the vita of Euthymios of Sardis (BHG 2145), his writing as a patriarch: the fight against heresy. The promotion of new saints and their texts. The men of letters of the Methodian milieu: Petros Monachos and his Life of Ioannikios (BHG 936), Ignatios Diakonos. The Vita of the patriarch Tarasios (BHG 1698). The Vita of the patriarch Nikephoros (BHG 1335). Ignatios Diakonos’ liturgical poetry. Theophanes and his Translation of the patriarch Nikephoros (BHG 1336). The milieu of Methodios in the patriarchate: the synkelloi, Michael Synkellos. The Vita of Theodoros of Chora (BHG 1743). The Graptoi brothers. The Vita of Leon of Catania.
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- Literary Circles in Byzantine IconoclasmPatrons, Politics and Saints, pp. 99 - 167Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021