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)]; see a (rare) pre-Iconoclasm icon of the Virgin Mary with Jesus child from the Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai; visit the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem (with a view of the aniconic decoration in the interior)
• 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