Iconoclasm

Examples of Iconoclasm in the following topics:

• Iconoclasm in Byzantium

  • The Byzantine Iconoclasm was the banning of the worship of religious images, a movement that sparked internal turmoil.
  • Iconoclasm, Greek for "image-breaking," is the deliberate destruction within a culture of the culture's own religious icons and other symbols or monuments.
  • The "First Iconoclasm," as it is sometimes called, lasted between about 730 CE and 787 CE, during the Isaurian Dynasty.
  • The "Second Iconoclasm" was between 814 CE and 842 CE.
  • A depiction of the destruction of a religious image under the Byzantine Iconoclasm by Chludov Psalter, 9th century CE.

• The Emperor Irene

  • Irene of Athens, the first woman Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, fought for recognition as Imperial leader throughout her rule and is best known for the ending of Iconoclasm in the Eastern Church.
  • She is best known for ending Iconoclasm.
  • Irene's most notable act was the restoration of the veneration of icons, thereby ending the first Iconoclasm of the Eastern Church.
  • As Empress, Irene made determined efforts to stamp out iconoclasm everywhere in the Empire including within the ranks of the army.

• The Isaurian Dynasty

  • The Isaurian dynasty is characterized by relative political stability, after an important defeat of the Arabs by Leo III, and Iconoclasm, which resulted in considerable internal turmoil.
  • The Isaurian dynasty is chiefly associated with Byzantine Iconoclasm, an attempt to restore divine favour by purifying the Christian faith from excessive adoration of icons, which resulted in considerable internal turmoil.

• The Great Schism of 1054

  • By the turn of the millennium, the Eastern and Western Roman Empires had been gradually separating along religious fault lines for centuries, beginning with Emperor Leo III's pioneering of the Byzantine Iconoclasm in 730 CE, in which he declared the worship of religious images to be heretical.
  • Therefore, the Iconoclasm widened the growing divergence and tension between East and West, though the church was still unified at this time.

• The Macedonian Dynasty

  • Shortly after this extended controversy over iconoclasm, which more or less ended (at least in the East) with the regent Theodora reinstituting icon worship in 842 CE, Emperor Basil I founded a new dynasty, the Macedonian Dynasty, in 867 CE.

• The Catholic Church

  • In the early 8th century, Byzantine iconoclasm became a major source of conflict between the eastern and western parts of the church.

• The Coronation of 800 CE

  • Furthermore, the papacy had since 727 been in conflict with Irene's predecessors in Constantinople over a number of issues, chiefly the continued Byzantine adherence to the doctrine of iconoclasm, the destruction of Christian images.