The Age of Second Iconoclasm

• Published in: Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians pp. 244 - 286
• Main Author: Noble, Thomas F. X
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc 01.01.2011; University of Pennsylvania Press
• Subjects: Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Applied philosophy; Applied sociology; Behavioral sciences; Bishops; Ceremonial objects; Ceremonies; Christianity; Church fathers; Churches; Clergy; Communications; Communications media; Crosses; Cultural anthropology; Cultural customs; Devotional objects; Emperors; Government; Government officials; Heads of state; Iconoclasm; Idolatry; Monarchs; Philosophy; Philosophy of religion; Political science; Popes; Practical theology; Religion; Rituals; Social sciences; Sociology; Sociology of religion; Spiritual belief systems; Spiritual leaders; Theology; Visual materials
• DOI: 10.9783/9780812202960.244
• ISBN: 0812222563; 9780812222562; 081224141X; 9780812241419

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