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atheling.bsky.social
Early Byzantine Isaurian Light Infantry?
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May 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
freydalpishti.bsky.social
Babe wake up, people are Isaurian posting on bsky dot app.
charltoncussans.bsky.social Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · May 25
Leo the Isaurian saved Rhomania from the Umayyad Caliphate and put an end to political chaos, yet his countrymen never forgave for obeying the 2nd Commandment.
dov.bsky.social Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · May 25
No like he definitely was. The thing about the iconoclasts is that a literal reading of the text suggests they were entirely correct.
May 25, 2026 at 3:55 PM
historyfiles.bsky.social
Isaurian Dynasty: this succeeded a period of anarchy, with organisation visibly breaking up and with both empire and #Constantinople neglected & decaying.

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#history #historyfiles #EasternRomans #Byzantines #ByzantineEmpire #Greece #Isaurians #medievaleurope
The History Files: Isaurian Dynasty (Eastern Romans)
May 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM
charltoncussans.bsky.social
Leo the Isaurian saved Rhomania from the Umayyad Caliphate and put an end to political chaos, yet his countrymen never forgave for obeying the 2nd Commandment.
dov.bsky.social Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · May 25
No like he definitely was. The thing about the iconoclasts is that a literal reading of the text suggests they were entirely correct.
nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · May 25
It's interesting as someone who grew up listening to pastors make tortured metaphors about what Paul really meant by "no idolatry" is we shouldn't like TV or sex too much but who moved to a place where I do in fact give offerings to giant golden statues like I think he was actually being literal
May 25, 2026 at 3:47 PM
ludmirdevotee.bsky.social
Me: Yeah so you just click on that icon in the corner

His Majesty Emperor Leo III the Isaurian: {eyes narrow} the what
December 12, 2024 at 9:44 PM
dante.cool
new blog post: iconoclasm, the state, and payment processors

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let's talk about history and materialism and crisis and, of course, leo the isaurian, emperor of the romans
iconoclasm, the state, and payment processors
how many times today have you thought about the Eastern Roman Empire
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April 23, 2026 at 9:29 PM
kmanriffs.bsky.social
FULL FORCE FRIDAY:🆕October 25th Release 1⃣9⃣🎧

ISAURIAN - The Pulsing Rush 🇧🇷 💢

2nd album from Distrito Federal, Brazilian Doomgaze/Post-Rock/Metal outfit 💢

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#Isaurian #ThePulsingRush #Doomgaze #PostRock #FFFOct25 #KMäN
October 25, 2024 at 12:24 AM
boblivion.bsky.social
#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #darkages #oman #pope #leo #leo5 #iconoclasm #9thCentury #medieval #isaurian #dynasty
September 1, 2026 at 5:18 PM
jacktindale.bsky.social
Leo III the Isaurian be like.
November 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
lucaskav.bsky.social
Pøltergeist - Heavy/Post Punk/Gothic Rock (CAN)

Lóstregos - Pagan Black (SPA)

Ghosts Of Glaciers - Post/Atmospheric Sludge (USA)

Isaurian - Post/Doom (BRASIL SIL SIL)
October 25, 2024 at 1:55 PM
isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social
did it
A virgin/chad meme comparing the Virgin of Vladimir, a beloved Russian Orthodox icon, with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. On one side, reads virgin of vladimir > definitely not actually painted by the apostle Luke > literally falling apart > this baby is an adult man > beloved by (1) vatniks, and (2) alt-right dipshits who think tradcaths aren't antisemitic enough > used as palladium for der tsar dem vampir y"sh > (in small text) Leo III the Isaurian was right: this is idol worship #sorrynotsorry On the other side, reads chad of volodymyr > despised by the most annoying people on earth > refused to flee kyiv when a whole army was trying to kill him > will not surrender even though the president of the us is a vatnik > nice Jewish boy, gives people awards named after Bohdan Khmelnytsky because fuck antisemites they don't get to define Ukrainianness > came to power because he was funny, turned out to also be badass > somewhat less corrupt than most eastern european leaders
July 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
roninmacbeth.bsky.social
Like if you read the lore document the pagan emperors are apparently constantly butchering people (usually Jews and Christians), the Isaurian dynasty (as in Leo III et al.) are actually Isaurians who worship the Hittite sun god and uh...well let's just say a bull was involved.
September 26, 2026 at 7:09 PM
blairapgar.bsky.social
Getting ready to run the first session of the 'A Crisis of Faith: Byzantine Iconoclasm and the Search for Holiness in the Medieval World' Reacting to the Past game--put together this sick spotify playlist to set the mood: open.spotify.com/playlist/1LW...
The Isaurian Court
The Byzantine ruling family held court (ca. 717-802) in Constantinople and was composed of: Leo III (r. 717-741); Constantine V (r. 741-775); Leo IV (r. 775-780); Constantine VI (r. 780-797); Irene (r...
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September 30, 2026 at 4:55 PM
medievalqabq.bsky.social
we have a cover! super excited to get close to publication on this project!

it’s actually a pretty wild ride, so here’s a brief explanation: 👇
book cover for A Connecting Polemic in the Medieval Mediterranean, from the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago. The image is a 16th-cent depiction of Leo the Isaurian, superimposed over a 10th-cent Arabic manuscript
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
medievalqabq.bsky.social
🎉 publication day! 🎉

editions & translations of the correspondence btw Umar b. Abd al-Aziz and Leo the Isaurian in medieval Latin, Christian Arabic, Muslim Arabic, Aljamiado, Armenian & early modern Latin. plus the intro to explain how they're all related!

open access & available here:
January 23, 2026 at 8:37 PM
friendlykitties.bsky.social
37 - Isaurian - The Pulsing Rush

Brazilian melodic doom. If you’re into that kind of stuff.

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Carved Earth
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December 6, 2024 at 10:25 PM
medievalqabq.bsky.social
in this volume, we edit and translate all known versions of the correspondence btw the Umayyad caliph ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (717-720) & the Byzantine emperor Leo the Isaurian (717-741).

So far, seems reasonable. but the texts jump around the Mediterranean in circuitous paths
gold coin of the Umayyad caliph Umar b. Abd al-Aziz, with Arabic writing in field: "there is no god except God alone, who has no associate" gold coin of Byzantine emperor Leo the Isaurian, showing him holding a globus cruciger with cross on crown
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
oneshoup.bsky.social
Funny to imagine some guy in the year 900 somewhere in central Anatolia wondering “why are Greek, Armenian, Isaurian, Kurdish, and Persian kind of like each other but Syriac is like Arabic?” before being killed in 97th The Byzantines vs everybody war
August 3, 2026 at 10:06 PM
onthisday.bsky.social
#OTD (Jun 18) in the year 741: death of Leo III the Isaurian, Byzantine emperor (b. 685) #OTDIH #history 🗃️ #Medievalsky
Leo III the Isaurian
Leo III the Isaurian, also known as the Syrian, was Byzantine Emperor from 717 until his death in 741 and founder of the Isaurian dynasty. He put an end to the Twenty Years' Anarchy, a period of great instability in the Byzantine Empire between 695 and 717, marked by the rapid succession of several emperors to the throne, along with ending the continual defeats and territorial losses the Byzantines had suffered during the 7th century. He also successfully defended the Empire against the invading Umayyads and forbade the veneration of icons.
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June 18, 2024 at 5:34 PM
blogographer1.bsky.social
Leontius crowned
Isaurian civil war
Over Roman throne

#haikuhistory
July 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
blogographer1.bsky.social
Capital saviour
An Isaurian lion
Smasher of Icons?

#haikuhistory
June 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
swoletarian.bsky.social
Addressing what internal conflict was the chief priority of the Isaurian Dynasty?
March 19, 2026 at 10:44 PM
ospreypublishing.bsky.social
Art from Armies of Justinian the Great, AD 527–65, illustrated by Raffaele D’Amato, out now.

THE INFANTRY
RIGHT: Stratiôtes, Numerus Quintani (ex-Legio V Macedonica), ad 540
LEFT: Drakonarios of Daci, ad 534
TOP: Isaurian elite warrior; battle of Thannuris, ad 527

#Historysky #Booksky
Artwork showing three soldiers of Justinian the great, one is holding a sword and the other two have spears. There are shields next to them and they are wearing armour.
November 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
arobertswrites.com
I do love my career bureaucrats.
A substantial stability was, however, restored by Anastasius I (491-518), an elderly but able career bureaucrat who lived to the age of eighty-eight and had time both to quell Isaurian revolts and to put imperial finances firmly in the black. The fact that Anastasius could do this, and without a military base either, must indicate that the eastern political system was essentially solid. From The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham
July 31, 2024 at 11:05 PM