Leslie Brubaker is Professor of Byzantine Art and Director of the Graduate School (College of Arts and Law) at the University of Birmingham. Her previous publications include Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium: Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus (1999) and, with John Haldon, Byzantium in the Era of Iconoclasm: The Sources (2001). She has edited Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive? (1998) and co-edited, with Robert Osterhout, The Sacred Image East and West (1995) and, with Julia M. H. Smith, Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900 (2004).
Introduction
1. Belief, ideology and practice in a changing world
2. Leo III: iconoclast or opportunist?
3. Constantine V and the institutionalisation of iconoclasm
4. The triumph of tradition? The iconophile intermission, 775-813
5. The second iconoclasm
6. Economy, society and state
7. Patterns of settlement: urban and rural life
8. Social elites and the court
9. Society, politics and power
10. Fiscal management and administration
11. Strategic administration and the origins of the themata
12. Iconoclasm, representation, and rewriting the past.
