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    The Byzantine Iconoclasm (Ancient Greek: Εἰκονομαχία, romanized: Eikonomachía, lit. 'image struggle', 'war on icons') were two periods in the history of...
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    term originates from the Byzantine Iconoclasm, the struggles between proponents and opponents of religious icons in the Byzantine Empire from 726 to 842...
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     829–842). Others have discussed the mutual influence of Muslim and Byzantine iconoclasm, noting that Caliph Yazid II had issued an iconoclastic edict, also...
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    war with the Bulgars, as well as initiating the second period of Byzantine iconoclasm. A senior general of Armenian origin, Leo distinguished himself under...
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    Christ Pantocrator (Sinai) (category Byzantine icons)
    image which was destroyed twice during the first and second waves of Byzantine Iconoclasm—first in 726, and again in 814—and thus its connection with the Christ...
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    Pope Gregory III (category Popes of the Byzantine Papacy)
    His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by Byzantine iconoclasm and the advance of the Lombards, in which he invoked the intervention...
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    art in worship led eventually to the period of "Byzantine iconoclasm." Sporadic outbreaks of iconoclasm on the part of local bishops are attested in Asia...
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    aniconism in Christian history, notably during the controversy of the Byzantine iconoclasm of the eighth century, and following the Protestant Reformation of...
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    support of iconoclasm and opposition to monasticism led to his vilification by some contemporary commentators and the majority of later Byzantine writers...
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    regent, she called the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, which condemned iconoclasm as heretical and brought an end to the first iconoclast period (730–787)...
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    was Byzantine Emperor from 829 until his death in 842. He was the second emperor of the Amorian dynasty and the last emperor to support iconoclasm. Theophilos...
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    power of the Franks. The Isaurian dynasty is chiefly associated with Byzantine iconoclasm, an attempt to restore divine favour by purifying the Christian faith...
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    829-842: Court and frontier in Byzantium during the last phase of Iconoclasm, Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies, vol 13, Ashgate 2014". Byzantina Symmeikta...
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    dynasty) ruled the Byzantine Empire from 820 to 867. The Amorian dynasty continued the policy of restored iconoclasm (the "Second Iconoclasm") started by the...
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    of iconoclasm in what came to be known as the "second" Byzantine iconoclasm. This iconoclasm was less intransigent than the first; iconodules were not...
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    Second Council of Nicaea (category Byzantine Iconoclasm)
    the final defeat of iconoclasm in 843, is celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine Rite as "The Sunday of...
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  • Iconodulism (category Byzantine Iconoclasm)
    et Sanctos quorum illae similitudinem gerunt, veneremur»). Byzantine iconoclasm Iconoclasm Iconography Idolatry Iconolatry Council of Constantinople (843)...
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    Germanus I of Constantinople (category Byzantine Iconoclasm)
    of the Byzantine State, pp. 350, 352-353. Cyril Mango, "Historical Introduction", in Bryer & Herrin, Iconoclasm, pp. 2-3, Centre for Byzantine Studies...
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    Pope Paschal I (category Byzantine Iconoclasm)
    exiled monks from the Byzantine Empire who had fled persecution for their opposition to iconoclasm. He both offered the exiled Byzantine mosaic artists work...
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    Icon (redirect from Byzantine iconography)
    these survive. Widespread destruction of images occurred during the Byzantine Iconoclasm of 726–842, although this did settle permanently the question of...
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  • perceive via the senses. There were two periods of iconoclasm, or icon-destruction, in the Byzantine Empire, in the mid eighth and early ninth centuries...
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  • Council of Hieria (category Byzantine Iconoclasm)
    controversy of Byzantine iconoclasm, condemning the veneration and production of religious icons as idolatrous and pagan, reflecting Byzantine Emperor Constantine...
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    Nikephoros I of Constantinople (category Byzantine Iconoclasm)
    Eudokia, of a strictly Orthodox family, which had suffered from the earlier Iconoclasm. His father Theodore, one of the secretaries of Emperor Constantine V...
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    that no images should be in churches. Later, in the Eastern church, Byzantine iconoclasm banned and destroyed images of Christ for a period, before they returned...
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    emperors' support for the Byzantine Iconoclasm, where the use of religious icons was banned, they were later vilified by Byzantine historians; Constantine's...
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    Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy (category Byzantine Iconoclasm)
    the overcoming of the Byzantine Empire’s Eastern Orthodox faith from the dominance of the Islamic faith and the Byzantine Iconoclasm in 842. Shown in the...
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    periods of Byzantine Iconoclasm. During the Sack of Constantinople in 1204, the Latin Crusaders vandalized valuable items in every important Byzantine structure...
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    Renaissance in Byzantine art style. The period in which the art was produced, the Macedonian Renaissance, followed the end of the Byzantine iconoclasm era lasting...
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    both literary (mostly early) and religious (mostly later). The Byzantine iconoclasm paused production of figural art in illuminated manuscripts for many...
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    This was triggered by the Byzantine Iconoclasm controversy that followed raging Christian-Muslim wars and a period of iconoclasm in West Asia. The defense...
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