Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians by Thomas F. X. Noble

Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians

Middle Ages

Thomas F. X. Noble

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In the year 726 C.E., the Byzantine emperor Leo III issued an edict declaring images to be idols, forbidden by Exodus, and ordering all such images in churches to be destroyed. Thus commenced the first wave of Byzantine iconoclasm, which ran its v...

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