The Byzantine Iconoclasm were two periods in the history of the Byzantine Empire when the use of religious images or icons was opposed by religious and ...

Iconoclasm literally means “image breaking” and refers to a recurring historical impulse to break or destroy images for religious or political reasons. For ...

Iconoclasm refers to any destruction of images, including the Byzantine Iconoclastic Controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries.

Iconoclasm refers to any destruction of images, including the Byzantine Iconoclastic Controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries, although the Byzantines ...

20 нояб. 2024 г. · Full-fledged Iconoclasm (or destruction of the images) emerged as an imperial policy only when Leo III issued his decrees of 730.

Iconoclasm, Greek for “image-breaking,” is the deliberate destruction within a culture of the culture's own religious icons and other symbols or monuments.

18 авг. 2022 г. · Iconoclasm, a term meaning the “destruction of images,” represents a period of Byzantine history when the State prohibited the production of religious images.

Iconoclasts (“image-breakers”) also emphasized the impossibility of depicting Christ's divinity. The rise of Islam and the loss of Byzantine territories to Arab ...

Byzantine iconoclasm began in 717 by edict of Emperor Leo III, who argued that icons, or images of holy figures, should not be allowed to be created. He ordered ...

Byzantine Iconoclasm is traditionally defined as the period between 726 and 843 when (apart from an 'Iconophile' interlude from 780 to 814) the production and ...