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Being an ancient historian must’ve been wild. If you didn’t like someone, you could ruin their legacy for good. The Roman Emperor could usher in an era of peace and prosperity never before seen, but if he fucks your gay lover? Well, sorry, your epithet is now “the Shit-faced.” Shout-out my man Constantine V, the Copronymous
What can you learn from a list of popes?
What can you learn from a list of popes?
My latest offering on the Durham Priory Library Recreated blog discusses what a late twelfth-century papal catalogue (a type of document I’ve blogged about before) shows us about eighth-century history. Or, at least, how it refracts that history:
Dates, Popes, and Emperors
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If you ever feel bad and naive, just a short reminder that it's what actually happened to Constantine V once. Keep it on mind.
If you ever feel unpopular or incompetent remember that Constantine V was remembered by his own people as Constantine the Shit-Head.
Emperor Constantine V
Constantine V, (718-775), was a Roman emperor whose reign was remarkable, internally, for the progress of Iconoclasm and, externally, for his victorious campaigns against the Bulgarians. He was the son of Leo III, and came to the throne in 741 at the age of 22. Constantine, not content with an imperial edict banning icons, summoned an Iconoclast council (754) to condemn the pictures by means of theological argument. Fortified by the council's findings, he began a wholesale persecution of the image worshipers, and especially of the monastic orders, which he wished to extirpate. It has been said that his motives here were economic rather than religious; but modern scholarship rightly diagnoses him as a religious fanatic. Constantine's Iconoclastic preoccupations prevented him from intervening in Italy, where Ravenna fell to the Lombards in 751, ending Byzantine rule in northern Italy; or in Syria, where the Abbasid dynasty succeeded the Ummayad dynasty in 750. But his repeated campaigns against the Bulgars (763-775) covered him with glory. Constantine died on campaign on September 14, 775.
