Interpellating Iconoclasts

In the same 2003 article, Cameron comments on the iconodule use of heresiological methods in dealing with the iconoclasts after the Second Council of Nicea: ”the victorious iconophiles hada strong interest in endorsing their council as the seventh and culminating representative of a . . . . Continue Reading »

Heresy, Concubines, Snakebite

Epiphanius’s Panarion or Medicine Chest was a compendium of heresies and their cures, and inspired an entire genre of “heresiologies.”  The book is often dismissed with some hostility by Byzantine historians, but Averil Cameron notes that it displays some literary skill. . . . . Continue Reading »