THEODORE OF STUDIUM

HIS LIFE AND TIMES

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.- INTRODUCTION. GENERAL OUTLOOK FROM CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTH CENTURY

CHAPTER II.- BIRTH AND EDUCATION OF THEODORE—FORMATIVE INFLUEXCES OF HIS EARLY LIFE

CHAPTER III.- FIRST YEARS OF THEODORE'S MONASTIC LIFE—DISCIPLINE—THE SECOND COUNCIL OF NICAEA AND ITS CONSEQUENCES—THEODORE ORDAINED PRIEST

CHAPTER IV.- PALACE REVOLUTIONS—THEODORE'S FIRST CONFLICT WITH THE CIVIL POWER

CHAPTER V .- FIRST YEARS AS ABBOT OF STUDIUM

CHAPTER VI.- IRENE—CHARLES—NICEPHORUS—THE DISPUTE ABOUT THE ELECTION TO THE PATRIARCHATE.

CHAPTER VII.- CONTROVERSY CONCERNING THE REHABILITATION OF THE STEWARD JOSEPH — THEODORE’S SECOND EXILE— DEATH OF NICEPHORUS AND ACCESSION OF MICHAEL I. — RESTORATION OF THEODORE — DEATH OF ABBOT PLATO

CHAPTER VIII.- REIGN AND OVERTHROW OF MICHAEL RHANGABE— RENEWAL OF THE ICONOCLASTIC PERSECUTION BY LEO V.

CHAPTER IX.- THEODORE’S CONTROVERSIAL WORK AGAINST THE ICONOCLASTS

CHAPTER X.- THIRD EXILE OF THEODORE, 815-821

CHAPTER XI.- THE LAST FOUR YEARS

CHAPTER XII.- THEODORE’S PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. HIS DEATH

CHAPTER XIII.- THEODORE'S PLACE IN CALLIGRAPHY AND HYMNOGRAPHY