Historiography
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• Brown: Attempt to break the power of the Holy Man reassert imperial ecclesiastical authority
• Mango: born of crisis of Muslim advance, Byzantine victories assisted belief – 2^nd commandment did have point and anxieties not reached such a point but for images assuming highly sensitive and prominent role on Byzantine society
• Cormack: result + symptom of society under radical readaptation to a changing world – disturbance reflected in reassertion of imperial authority
• Whittow: Iconoclasm symptom Choosen people’s need to find favour with God – roots in East but became Byzantine issue – creation Byzantine ideology - rejection Roman heritage of inclusive near Eastern culture – Franks see Byzantium as “Empire of the Greeks” – Jewish tradition in guise of Choosen people – isolated by virtue, never likely to e inclusive attempt to reconquer Near East.

Other Notes in this Category

1. Byzantine Ideology
2. Historiography
3. Iconclasm and the Ancient City
4. Iconoclasm and the Holy Man
5. Structural Changes in Iconoclasm
6. Theological Backing to Iconoclasm
7. Timeline
8. What is Iconoclasm?
9. Why Iconoclasm?

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