jan 1, 730 - Emperor Leo III Outlaws Icons
Description:
• Outlawed Icons
◦Iconoclasts: someone against the use of icons
◦Iconoclasm: movement against icons
◦Condemned as idolatry
◦In Islam icons are banned
• Used Iconoclastic Controvery to add prestige to the
patriarch of Constantinople
• Popes were against this ban on icons
◦Began friction between Roman papacy and Byzantine
empires
Added to timeline:
The Byzantine Empire
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