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Chapter 4 - The Secular Milieux and Their Rewriting of the Second Iconoclasm

The Aristocracy, the Army, the Court and the Imperial Family

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2021

Óscar Prieto Domínguez
Affiliation:
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
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The aristocratic milieu: Hagiography and aristocracy in the early ninth century: Philaretos and Eudokimos. Aristocratic models of feminine holiness (ninth-tenth centuries). The political meaning of the new aristocratic saint: imperial ideology. The military milieu. The court milieu: the family and collaborators of Theophilos in post-iconoclast hagiography. The court of Theophilos and its post-iconoclast reinvention. The family of Theophilos and Theodora. The imperial couple in post-iconoclast hagiography: Theophilos and Theodora

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Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm
Patrons, Politics and Saints
, pp. 225 - 272
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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