The volume is a tour de force in its integrated provision of a vast amount of relevant source material and detailed analysis of it.

Juan Signes Codoñer. The Emperor Theophilos and the East, 829–842: Court and Frontier in Byzantium during the Last Phase of Iconoclasm. Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies, 13. Farnham; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Variorum, 2014.

From Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). Review by Denis Sullivan, University of Maryland College Park