Byzantine Studies, Iconoclasm, and the Rise of Islam

by Aristeides Papadakis

While the history of the iconoclastic controversy has long occupied center stage in the currently flourishing discipline of Byzantine Studies—and has recently attracted the attention of some of the original and most seasoned scholars in the field—an authoritative survey of iconoclasm does not yet exist. Still, our knowledge of this reassessed landscape is much improved, and consensus on key aspects is often possible.

Aristeides Papadakis

Dr. Aristeides Papadakis was professor of history (emeritus) at the University of Maryland. He is the author, with John Meyendorff, of Crisis in Byzantium: The Filioque Controversy in the Patriarchate of Gregory II of Cyprus and The Christian East and the Rise of the Papacy, which has been translated into French, Greek, and Russian. He was also a contributor and consultant to The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium and was a frequent participant in international conferences addressing the history, theology, and current state of the Orthodox Church.

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