Table of Contents

1. The reign of Leo VI; 2. Romans imitating Saracens?; 3. The Byzantine Christian approach to war; 4. The ideal Christian general; 5. A new Solomon; 6. Imperial sacrality in action; 7. Leo VI as homilist; 8. Byzantines as 'chosen people'; 9. Byzantine Christian statecraft.

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Analyses the ideological writings of a scholarly and unusual Byzantine emperor dedicated to distinctively Orthodox Christian principles.

About the Author

Meredith L. D. Riedel is an Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity at Duke University, North Carolina. She is a historian of early medieval Byzantine political thought and comparative religion, and is currently writing a book on the first five hundred years of interaction between Byzantium and the Caliphate. She serves on the Governing Body of the Byzantine Studies Association of North America.