Paulicians

Carl Dixon, Ph.D. (2018), University of Nottingham, has published articles on Byzantine-Armenian diplomacy and identity formation in heretical movements.

• PrefaceFiguresIntroduction1 Rethinking the Paulicians2 One Heresy or Two? Paulicians in Armenia and Asia Minor3 What Is the Paulician Heresy? Traditional Approaches1 Polemics, Punishment, and Forgery: Paulicians in Greek Sources 541 Peter of Sicily’s History of the Paulicians2 The History and the Persecutions of Theodora3 The Brief History of the Manichaeans4 The Letter of Theophylaktos Lekapenos to Peter of Bulgaria5 The Treatise against the Paulicians2 Reinventing Paulicians in the 10th Century 991 Byzantine Understandings of Paulicians c.810–9402 Reinventing the Paulicians in Macedonian History Writing3 Reinventing through Forgery i: The History of the Paulicians4 Reinventing through Forgery ii: The Brief History5 Forgery, Authority, and Authenticity in the 10th Century3 The Didaskalie, the Letters of Sergios, and Paulician Belief c.800–835 1401 The Didaskalie2 Schism and the Legitimacy of the Didaskalos3 Dualism and “the Grace of the Spirit”4 Paulician Customs, Worship, and Organisation5 Paulician Hamartocentricism and Apocalyptic6 Historical Implications4 Paulicians in the 8th Century: The Genesis of a Heresy c.750–800 1871 Paulicians and the Iconomachy2 The Armenian Connection3 The Byzantine-Islamic Frontier in the Long 8th Century4 Paulicians and Pastoralism5 Labelling the Paulicians of Asia Minor5 Paulicians in the Face of Persecution c.800–845 2321 Nikephoros i and the Paulicians2 The Persecutions of Michael i and Leo v3 The Paulician Response: Early Resistance and the Revolt of Thomas the Slav4 Paulicians in the Reign of Theophilos5 The Persecutions of Theodora6 Paulicians at Arms: The Islamic Alliance and Warfare against the Byzantines c.845–880 2781 The Battle of Mauropotamos and the Paulician-Islamic Alliance2 Paulician Settlement and Raiding under Karbeas3 An Emperor in the East?: Basil, Chrysocheir, and the Road to War4 The Last Raids of Chrysocheir and the Eclipse of TephrikēEpilogueAppendix 1 The Dating Frameworks of the History of the PauliciansAppendix 2 The Career of Sergios in the History of the PauliciansBibliographyIndex