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Chapter 2 - The Methodian Milieu

Literature Conceived in the Patriarchate after the Iconoclastic Crisis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2021

Óscar Prieto Domínguez
Óscar Prieto Domínguez
Affiliation:
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
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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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Patriarch MethodiosEuthymios of SardisPetros MonachosIoannikiosIgnatios Diakonospatriarch TarasiosIgnatios Diakonospatriarch NikephorosMichael SynkellosTheodoros of ChoraThe Graptoi brothersLeon of Catania.
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Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm
Patrons, Politics and Saints
 , pp. 99 - 167
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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