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Ralph-Johannes Lilie, "Die Patriarchen der ikonoklastischen Zeit: Germanos I.-Methodios I. (715-847) (Berliner byzantinistische Studien)"

This study of the patriarchs of Constantinople before, during, between, and after the two periods of Byzantine Iconoclasm shares its editor and most of its contributors with the new Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit (Berlin, 1999- ). Here the collaborators (Ralph-Johannes Lilie, Dietrich Stein, Ilse Rochow, Claudia Ludwig, Thomas Pratsch, and Beate Zielke) discuss the patriarchs in much more detail than a prosopographical format allows. But they also show the reflexive skepticism about the sources characteristic of recent Berlin Byzantinists, which often leads to arbitrary rewriting of history, argued on grounds of supposed plausibility rather than evidence. For example, Rochow excludes reported iconophile motives for the conspiracies in which the "iconoclast" patriarchs Anastasius and Constantine II were implicated (pp. 25-26, 37-44), while Lilie dismisses reports that the "iconoclast" patriarch Paul VI abjured Iconoclasm before dying (pp. 53-56). With these accounts rejected, Pratsch has serious trouble trying to explain why after Iconoclasm the Church of Constantinople continued to honor the memories of these three "iconoclast" patriarchs (pp. 267-276). Yet surely believing the iconophile sources is easier than assuming that they whitewashed dedicated iconoclasts.

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