Historical Revisionism and Contemporary Iconoclasm: A Secular Problem?

by Sergei P. Brun

The cruel murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality and systemic racism have added fuel to ongoing culture wars, debates on social justice, and calls for a wide-ranging revision of the historic and cultural landscape. How does this wide-ranging social upheaval correlate to the history and contemporary self-understanding of Eastern Christianity?

Sergei P. Brun

Sergei P. Brun is a Russian historian specializing in the history of the Latin East and the Church of Antioch. His is the author of several articles, papers, translations, as well as the two-volume monograph The Byzantines and the Franks in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia (Moscow, 2015). Currently he is a staff member at St. Thomas Institute in Moscow and a member of the editorial board of The Historic Reporter.

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