http://loveofhistory.com/ancient-history-competition-47/ A historical perspective of current events Sun, 04 Feb 2018 14:54:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://loveofhistory.com/ancient-history-competition-47/#comment-516 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:06:32 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=1033#comment-516 Yannis Stoyas is of course quite right: I had the *right* patriarch, but the wrong emperor. Leo III was the one who appointed Anastasios; Leo’s son Constantine V (“Kopronymos”) the one who removed, humiliated, and then reinstated him. mea culpa.

]]> http://loveofhistory.com/ancient-history-competition-47/#comment-515 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:10:33 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=1033#comment-515 Constantine V (741-775).
When early in Constantine’s reign his brother-in-law, Artabasdos, usurped the throne, Anastasios, who had been patriarch since 730, supported the pretender. The patriarch, formerly an iconoclast, even became an iconophile. But by November 743 Constantine entered Constantinople and his wrath was brought upon Artabasdos and Anastasios.
The latter was publicly humiliated; after he changed again his stance towards the icons, Anastasios became again patriarch (until 754 when he died).

]]> http://loveofhistory.com/ancient-history-competition-47/#comment-514 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:14:53 +0000 http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com/?p=1033#comment-514 Leo III (reigned 717-41), during the controversy over icons (on which Patriarch Anastasios changed his view, to the displeasure of the iconoclast emperor who had appointed him).

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