Let’s take a trip back in the time, to an era that feels eerily familiar: In the eighth and ninth centuries, Byzantine Iconoclasm rocked the Catholic Church, especially in the East. It called for the ...

Iconoclasm in its most basic sense refers to the destruction or rejection of images, usually for political or religious reasons. In the political world, revolutionaries might deface or destroy statues ...

Although female rulers were an anomaly during the Middle Ages, Herrin (The Formation of Christendom) chronicles the lives of three eighth- and ninth-century Byzantine women who proved to be exceptions ...

Sometimes, bored indifference can sting worse than outright hostility. I was telling a friend about my present book project, The Storm of Images, which concerns the iconoclasm struggle in the ...

HENRY MAGUIRE AND EUNICE DAUTERMAN MAGUIRE Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 223 pp.; 8 color ills., 150 b/w. $49.50 For decades, ...

This richly layered narrative brings to life the many faceted culture of Byzantium, crown jewel of the East from the fourth century to the Middle Ages. Angold, a historian at the University of ...