Explores the literary texts produced during Byzantine Iconoclasm and their use as ideological tools by the main political circles.

"An annotated translation of the sixth session of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (Nicea, 787), containing the definition of the Council of Constantinople (754)

Twelve scholars contextualize and critically examine the key debates about the controversy over icons and their veneration that would fundamentally shape Byzant

The phenomenon of iconoclasm, expressed through hostile actions towards images, has occurred in many different cultures throughout history. The destruction and

The ninth-century Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes is the most influential historical text ever written in medieval Constantinople. Yet mode