Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 730 and continued for nearly 120 years, has long held a firm grip on
Law was central to the ancient Roman conception of themselves and their empire. Yet what happened to Roman law and the position it occupied ideologically during
This title presents an important re-examination of the Byzantine iconoclasm - the widespread phenomenon of destruction of images that took place in the 7th to 9