Contextualizing Constantine V’s Radical Religious Policies: The Debate about the Intercession of the Saints and the ‘Sleep of the Soul’ in the Chalcedonian and Nestorian Churches

Contextualizing Constantine V’s Radical Religious Policies: The Debate about the Intercession of the Saints and the ‘Sleep of the Soul’ in the Chalcedonian and Nestorian ChurchesByzantine and Modern Greek StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/A8N6QW6U/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.DirkKrausmüllerContextualizing Constantine V’s Radical Religious Policies: The Debate about the Intercession of the Saints and the ‘Sleep of the Soul’ in the Chalcedonian and Nestorian Churcheshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/A8N6QW6Uhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/A8N6QW6Uhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/A8N6QW6UByzantine and Modern Greek Studies39:1201525-49This article argues that in the last years of his reign Constantine V came to reject the intercession of saints, despite the fact that the Council of Hieria, which he himself had convened only a decade earlier, had explicitly anathematised those who held such a view. Moreover, it makes the case that the emperor participated in a broad religious discourse that began in the sixth century and continued into the ninth century, both among the Chalcedonians of Byzantium and the Levant and among the Nestorians of the East. Krausmüller, Dirk. “Contextualizing Constantine V’s Radical Religious Policies: The Debate about the Intercession of the Saints and the ‘Sleep of the Soul’ in the Chalcedonian and Nestorian Churches.” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 39:1 (2015): 25–49. Dirk Krausmüller, Contextualizing Constantine V’s Radical Religious Policies: The Debate about the Intercession of the Saints and the ‘Sleep of the Soul’ in the Chalcedonian and Nestorian Churches, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 39:1 (2015): 25–49.NestoriansSyriac influence [Byzantine church]VII-XVIII CEVIII CEdeatheschatologysaintssoul