ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the realia of cross-cultural connections, here between Constantinople and Rome. Dell’Acqua argues that despite Roman objections to Byzantine religious practices (Iconoclasm), the church acted almost as a cultural broker, importing religious practices such as Marian veneration and processions from Constantinople. A central figure here was Autpertus, author of the first preserved sermons that show what Dell’Acqua demonstrates to be Constantinopolitan thought.
