Empress Irene of Athens, a pivotal figure in Byzantine history, navigated a world of political intrigue and religious ...

Iconoclasm (the destruction of religious images ... from God's glory by the glitter and rich hangings of the Catholic Church. For the men who "cleansed the altars" this was direct action against ...

The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish state ...

It is located in the katholikon (main Church) of Karyes, known as the Protaton ... Legend tells that the icon escaped iconoclasm during the reign of Theophilos (829-842) and traveled of its own power ...

Irene’s significant policy was ending iconoclasm, which divided the Eastern Roman Empire ... wind of the plot and forced the conspirators to take up positions in the Church which barred them from ...

For this reason Bailey called on political and civic leaders to take a strong stance against the current iconoclasm and to participate in ... Following the vandalizing of the Paul Kruger statue on ...

Patronage moved from church to court to aristocrats ... but it is true. The punkism and official iconoclasm we have experienced have burnt the old corn stubble and left the fields fallow so as to ...