The Age of Second Iconoclasm
The heated debates over images that attracted so much energy and intelligence in the eighth century cooled noticeably in the years after II Nicaea and Frankfurt. In the West popes and Franks continued to work together productively and amicably despite their disagreements over images and the filioque...
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Published in | Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians pp. 244 - 286 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
Published |
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
01.01.2011
University of Pennsylvania Press |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | The heated debates over images that attracted so much energy and intelligence in the eighth century cooled noticeably in the years after II Nicaea and Frankfurt. In the West popes and Franks continued to work together productively and amicably despite their disagreements over images and the filioque. In the East, conditions were less serene. In 797 Irene decided to have her frivolous son Constantine VI blinded—he died from his wounds—and to assume rule herself. Irene did rule for five years as Basilissa, but she lacked the confidence of many key constituents in the Byzantine state. Accordingly she was |
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ISBN: | 0812222563 9780812222562 081224141X 9780812241419 |
DOI: | 10.9783/9780812202960.244 |