I'm writing a paper and doing my laundry right now, since my life is just that boring. The laundry's almost done, but the paper's not.

It's about this life of the patriarch Tarasios, specifically its role as religious propaganda. It was written about the time of the second iconoclast controversy by an iconophile and spent a lot of time glorifying the iconophile Tarasios and explaining why iconclasm was bad. But there's a lot more propaganda in it than that. Stuff about the second marriage of Constantine VI is ignored, as is Tarasios' position in the imperial bureaucracy. He, like Thomas Becket or Nicephorus, was raised to his position as a religious leader despite not being a churchman. He argued with (and was hated by) the Studite monks, major figures in the Church.

So I think my thesis is more or less sound. It's just sitting down and writing the damn thing that makes me sad.