Leo VI and the transformation of Byzantine Christian identity : writings of an unexpected emperor / Meredith L.D. Riedel, Duke University, North Carolina.
The Byzantine emperor Leo VI (886-912), was not a general or even a soldier, like his predecessors, but a scholar, and it was the religious education he gained under the tutelage of the patriarch Photios that was to distinguish him as an unusual ruler. This book analyses Leo's literary output,...
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