Leslie Brubaker and John Haldon are historians of Byzantium, and this Cambridge University Press book is their standard scholarly history of the Byzantine Iconoclast controversy, covering roughly 680 to 850 and its eventual resolution at the Second Council of Nicaea and the Triumph of Orthodoxy. Its strength is that it critically re-examines the surviving sources for Iconoclasm, many of which were written by the eventual iconodule victors, correcting a historiography that had often taken those hostile accounts at face value. Its limit is that it is a critical academic history rather than a devotional or doctrinal account, so a claim about how the Triumph of Orthodoxy is understood theologically within Orthodox Christianity today needs a source addressing that tradition's own doctrinal reading alongside this historical study.
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A standard scholarly history of the Byzantine Iconoclast controversy from a university press. NotesA standard scholarly history of the Byzantine Iconoclast controversy and its resolution, covering the period from roughly 680 to 850. Use for established historical facts about Byzantine Iconoclasm, the Second Council of Nicaea and the Triumph of Orthodoxy; a critical academic history, not a devotional or doctrinal account.
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AuthorLeslie Brubaker and John Haldon
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication Year2011
Source Typeacademic monograph
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Nicaea, Cities This source names Nicaea directly: "resolution at the Second Council of Nicaea and the Triumph of Orthodoxy."
Source Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680-850: A HistoryLeslie Brubaker and John Haldon
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This source backs 43 claims across the atlas. As facts: 27 well-attested. As cited relationships: 10 holds. Plus 6 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Religious Events, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Holidays & Festivals, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Bodies of Water, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Councils and Synods, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Empires & Polities, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Cities, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Religions, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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