The second volume in this series introduces saints who were active during the period of the iconoclastic controversy in Byzantium (726-843). For almost a century and a half, theological and popular opinions were strongly divided on the question of the manufacture and veneration icons of Christ, the Virgin, and saints.
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Alice-Mary Talbot is Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

Read More by Alice-Mary Talbot:

• Dumbarton Oaks Papers 59
• Dumbarton Oaks Papers 60
• Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation
• The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century
• Dumbarton Oaks Papers 58
• Dumbarton Oaks Papers 61
• Dumbarton Oaks Papers 62
• Dumbarton Oaks Papers 63
• Becoming Byzantine: Children and Childhood in Byzantium