La vie d'Etienne le Jeune - v.3

The Life of Stephen the Younger is one of the rare sources for Byzantium in the ?Dark Ages? and one of the key witnesses to the history of Iconoclasm.

This book presents a new edition of the text, together with a French translation and commentary, and an important introduction.

Stephen was a hermit, killed in 765 at the order of the emperor Constantine V; his Life was written in 809, some forty years after the 7th Ecumenical Council, Nicaea II, at which Orthodoxy was affirmed.

Professor Auz?py shows how the Life reflects the politics of the era, both those of the patriarchate on which the author depended, and of the female monastery near which Stephen had lived, and transforms the probable victim of a failed political plot into a Christ-like figure martyred by a diabolic emperor.