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Conquest and Iconoclasm

Conquest and Iconoclasm. Terms and Questions. themes strategoi Bulgars Slavs Farmer's Law Monotheletism : “one will”. What was the effect on the Byzantine Empire as a whole of the war with Persia? What was the effect of war and plague in the cities? In the countryside?.

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Conquest and Iconoclasm

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  1. Conquest and Iconoclasm

  2. Terms and Questions • themes • strategoi • Bulgars • Slavs • Farmer's Law • Monotheletism: “one will” • What was the effect on the Byzantine Empire as a whole of the war with Persia? • What was the effect of war and plague in the cities? In the countryside?

  3. Homework Questions: Early Byzantium • How does Wickham describe both the reason for the new arrangement into themes and its impact? • What does Wickham mean on p. 268 (top) when he writes, "This is when the Latin lands were lost to Byzantium"? How did Byzantium change focus, and what was the effect?

  4. Timeline of conquests • 619: Persian King Chrosroes II (591-628) takes Egypt after having taken Damascus, Jerusalem • 630: Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (610-641) took back Persian conquests • 626: Avar siege of Constantinople • 630’s: Arab conquests

  5. Iconoclasm • What was at stake in the iconoclastic movement? Why was it important? • How does Wickham account for the initial success of the iconoclastic movement? Why did it fail to take hold permanently? • Looking at the sources, what are some of the justifications for each position in the iconoclastic controversy?

  6. Iconoclasm Timeline • 726: Emperor Leo III the Isaurian (717-741): Iconoclast; ban on icons • 754: Synod (Constantine V) • 785: Empress Eirene, Iconophile, reverses policy • 787: Second Council of Nicea • 815: Leo V restores Iconoclasm • 843: restoration of icons, orthodoxy

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