LEADER 05459nam 2200649 450 001 9910822577303321 005 20230803204154.0 010 $a1-315-61602-5 010 $a1-317-03426-0 010 $a1-4094-6986-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000217548 035 $a(EBL)1589615 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001376381 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11832979 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001376381 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11361713 035 $a(PQKB)10253582 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1589615 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10905847 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL674622 035 $a(OCoLC)887498963 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1589615 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000217548 100 $a20140819h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe emperor Theophilos and the East, 829-842 $ecourt and frontier in Byzantium during the last phase of iconoclasm /$fJuan Signes Codoner 210 1$aFarnham, England ;$aBurlington, Vermont :$cAshgate,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (533 p.) 225 1 $aBirmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies ;$vVolume 13 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-43340-2 311 $a0-7546-6489-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a3.1 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 327 $a6.2 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; 10Nasr? 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 327 $a11.2 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 830-833 327 $a14.1 Ma'mu?n's invasion of Cappadocia in 83014.2 Theophilos' First Triumph and his Campaign in Cilicia in 831; 14.3 The Dating of Ma'mu?n's Second Campaign in Cappadocia; 14.4 The Fortress of Loulon; 14.5 Exchange of Letters Between the Emperor and the Caliph, and Ma'mu?n's Stay in Egypt; 14.6 Some Conclusions on the Chronology of the Campaigns of 831-832; 14.7 Ma'mu?n'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 327 $a15.3 The Armenian Bagratids 330 $aThis book focuses on the impact of political relations with the East, especially the Muslim caliphate, on the reign of the last iconoclast emperor of Byzantium, Theophilos (829-842), reinterpreting the major events of the period and their chronology. Separate sections are devoted to the influence of Armenians at the court, the enrolment of Persian rebels against the caliphate in the Byzantine army, the continuous warfare with the Arabs and the cultural exchange with Baghdad, the Khazar problem, and the attitude of the Christian Melkites towards the iconoclast emperor. The final chapter reasses 410 0$aBirmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies ;$vVolume 13. 607 $aByzantine Empire$xHistory$yTheophilus, 829-842 607 $aByzantine Empire$xPolitics and government$y527-1081 676 $a949.502 700 $aSignes Codon?er$b Juan$0388962 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822577303321 996 $aThe emperor Theophilos and the East, 829-842$93978326 997 $aUNINA