Week 7 (October 5-9)
The age of Iconoclasm, 730-843
- In-class assignment #2. Confronting Islam [Shepard 333-349 and 365-394]; see the seal of a logothetes tou genikou (minister responsible for taxation)
- Iconoclasm
and the making of Byzantine Orthodoxy [Gregory 183-201; Shepard 251-291;
Geanakoplos 152-154 (no. 111); 154-156 (no.
112), 156-157 (no. 113 ), 157 (no. 114 - Emperor Leo V's iconoclastic views),
158 (no. 115), 346-347 (no. 257)]; read John
of Damascus' defence of icons and the
decisions of the iconoclastic Church council of 754; see a (rare) pre-Iconoclasm icon of the Virgin Mary with Jesus child from the Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai; see gold coin struck for Emperor Justinian II and an Islamic dirham; visit the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem (with a section and a view of the aniconic decoration in the interior) and the rock-cut settlements of Cappadocia; see a (modern) icon for the Sunday of Orthodoxy
- Court, army, and church [Gregory 202-216; Shepard 465-492 and 433-464; chapter by Michael Angold in Haldon; Geanakoplos 21-22 and 51-52 (nos. 4 and 29),
22-23 and 25 (nos. 5 and 8 - Liutprand of Cremona,
Antapodosis);
59-60 (no. 38), 77-79 (no. 50 A and B), 79 (no. 51), 99-100 (nos. 69-70),
168-170 (no. 122)]; see also the complete collection of Byzantine
monastic foundation documents
