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The Emperor Theophilos and the East, 829-842 : court and frontier in Byzantium during the last phase of iconoclasm /
This book focuses on the impact of political relations with the East, especially the Muslim caliphate, on the reign of the last iconoclast emperor of Byzantium, Theophilos (829-842), reinterpreting the major events of the period and their chronology. Separate sections are devoted to the influence of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham :
Ashgate Variorum,
2013.
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| Colección: | Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies ;
volume 13. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Maps and Figures; Preface; Introduction; Section I: Prolegomena to a Reign; 1Back to Iconoclasm!; 1.1 Leo's Seizure of Power and the Re-establishment of Iconoclasm; 1.2 Iconoclasm in Anatolia; 1.3 Thomas' Icon Worship, and the Melkite Patriarch of Antioch; 1.4 The Iconoclasm of the Amorians; 2Unrest at the Eastern Border; 2.1 The Tourmarchai of the Phoideratoi; 2.2 The Outbreak of the War at the East; 2.3 An Army of Barbarians?; 2.4 Fracture in the Empire; Section II: The Armenian Court; 3 Family Ties: Leo the Armenian and Michael of Amorion.
- 3.1 The Empress Thekla and the Family of Bardanes the Turk3.2 Michael's Conspiracy Against Leo; 3.3 The Execution of Leo's Murderers; 4Parties at the Court: The Armenian Marriage of Theophilos; 4.1 Dating the Marriage; 4.2 Theodora's Family; 4.3 John the Grammarian; 5The Elusive Manuel the Armenian; 5.1 Why Amalekites?; 5.2 Manuel's Service Under Michael I, Leo and Michael II; 5.3 Dating Manuel's Exile (I); 5.4 The Akrites Manuel; 5.5 Dating Manuel's Exile (II); 6 The Daughter of Constantine VI and her Stepson; 6.1 Marrying a Nun to Obtain Legitimacy.
- 6.2 Euphrosyne's Banishment from the Palace and the Return of the "Armenian Party"7The Armenian Family Network; 7.1 Theophilos' Armenian Relatives; 7.2 Kaisar Alexios Mousele; 8Opposition to the Emperor; 8.1 Checking Aristocratic Resistance; 8.2 Manuel and Theophobos; Section III: Supporting the Persian Uprising against the Abbasids; 9Some Remarks on the Khurramite Movement; 10Nasṛ the Khurramite; 10.1 The Literary Sources; 10.2 The Tourmarches of the Phoideratoi and the Persian Tourma; 11Theophobos and his Father; 11.1 Birth and Courtly Upbringing of a Noble Persian Youth.
- 11.2 The Identity of Theophobos' Father11.3 Theophobos Patrician and Kaisar and his Marriage to Theophilos' Family; 11.4 Theophobos Exousiastes of the Persians; 12A Persian Basileus?; 12.1 Dating the Uprising of the Persians; 12.2 Whose Usurpation Came First?; Section IV: Warfare Against the Arabs; 13 Invasion or Civil War? Thomas the Slav and the Arabs; 13.1 Thomas' Stay in the Caliphate and the Two Thomases; 13.2 Arab Troops in Thomas' Army; 13.3 The Arab Conquest of Crete; 13.4 The Strategy of the Caliph; 14Campaigning in Cilicia and Cappadocia in 830-833.
- 14.1 Ma'mūn's invasion of Cappadocia in 83014.2 Theophilos' First Triumph and his Campaign in Cilicia in 831; 14.3 The Dating of Ma'mūn's Second Campaign in Cappadocia; 14.4 The Fortress of Loulon; 14.5 Exchange of Letters Between the Emperor and the Caliph, and Ma'mūn's Stay in Egypt; 14.6 Some Conclusions on the Chronology of the Campaigns of 831-832; 14.7 Ma'mūn's Third Campaign in Cappadocia in 833; 15Byzantine Expeditions in Western Armenia Between 834 and 836; 15.1 Stephen of Taron on the Campaigns of Theophilos; 15.2 The Abasgian Campaign and the Iberian Bagratids.