"The iconoclast saint: Emperor Theophilos in Byzantine hagiography". En: S. Tougher (Ed.), The Emperor in the Byzantine World (pp. 216-234).

Due to its historical importance, the process of sanctification of Byzantine Empresses of the Iconoclast and post-Iconoclast period (Irene, Theodora, Theophano, etc.) has been studied in detail. However, that is not the case of their masculine counterparts. What is their role in hagiographical texts...

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Autor: Prieto Domínguez, Óscar
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Medieval literature
5505.10 Filología
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