Leslie Brubaker and John Haldon's 2011 history of the Byzantine Iconoclast era, the standard modern scholarly account of the period, built on an earlier annotated survey of the surviving sources. It argues that the traditional narrative of Iconoclasm relies heavily on hagiography and chronicle material written by the victorious iconophile side after the fact, in a period when opposing texts were suppressed or destroyed, and cautions that specific casualty and persecution figures in those accounts carry rhetorical hyperbole rather than verified counts.
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AuthorLeslie Brubaker and John Haldon
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication Year2011
Source Typeacademic monograph
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Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: a peer-reviewed academic monograph from a university press, written by the two historians whose combined source survey and history are the standard modern scholarly reference for the Iconoclast period, including its own critical assessment of how reliable the surviving iconophile accounts are. Sources
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- Religious Events, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 open question, 1 general references.
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