Image: SoldiersGuardIgnatios

Description: Skyllitzes Matritensis, fol. 76va, detail. Miniature: Confinement of the Patriarch Ignatios in the tomb of Constantine V Kopronymos. Text from the Chronicle of John Skylitzes: "... Promoted to the patriarchal throne, he debarred Bardas from church for having put his wife away without cause and cohabiting with his mistress in contempt of canon law. Though Bardas begged and pleaded, he was unable to obtain absolution; so losing all hope of doing so, he went onto the offensive. He threw Ignatios out of the church, subjected him to a host of unbearable sufferings and finally locked him up in the tomb of [Constantine V] Kopronymos with the crudest of ferocious guards to watch over him. ..." (Translated by John Wortley, in: John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057: Translation and Notes, p. 106-107) References: Ioannis Scylitzae Synopsis Historiarum. Editio Princeps. Rec. Ioannes Thurn, p. 106, in: Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae 5 Series Berolinensis, 1973 Tsamakda V.: The illustrated chronicle of Ioannes Skylitzes in Madrid, p. 119 Grabar A., Manoussacas M.: L'illustration du manuscript de Skylitzes de Madrid, p. 55
Title: SoldiersGuardIgnatios
Credit: en:Madrid Skylitzes
Author: from the Middle Ages, unknown
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License: Public domain
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