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Thomas the Slav

The historian Warren Treadgold, however, argues that Thomas stayed in the empire and may have even remained in active military service, and explains his obscurity by Thomas's association with Bardanes, which hampered his career.

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The image of Thomas as an iconophile champion opposed to the iconoclast Michael II in later, Macedonian-era sources was probably the result of their own anti-iconoclast bias.

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