M. T. G. Humphreys, Fellow of St. John's College, University of Cambridge

M. T. G. Humphreys is a Fellow of St. John's College, University of Cambridge.

"Law, Power, and Imperial Ideology in the Iconoclast EraÂis an important contribution to the ongoing research on a very obscure period in Byzantine history, and will surely be instrumental in introducing non-legal historians to the study of the legal sources of this period. . . . [T]his book should be welcome by those interested in Byzantium's 'Dark Ages." -- Avshalom Laniado, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"Although the initial aim of M. T. G. Humphreys was to study Byzantine iconoclasm, he soon realized that scholars have largely ignored the legal texts pertaining to this period. Hence his decision to write "the first study dedicated solely to the legal sources of the 'Iconoclast era'" (p. 7), for which he borrows the chronological framework from L. Brubaker and J. Haldon (Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680-850: A History, Cambridge 2011)...Law, Power, and Imperial Ideology in the Iconoclast Era is an important contribution to the ongoing research on a very obscure period in Byzantine history, and will surely be instrumental in introducing non-legal historians to the study of the legal sources of this period...this book should be welcome by those interested in Byzantium's 'Dark Ages.'" --Avshalom Laniado, Bryn Mawr Classical Review