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• Brown: Attempt to break the power of the Holy Man reassert imperial ecclesiastical authority

• Mango: born of crisis of Muslim advance, Byzantine victories assisted belief – 2nd commandment did have point and anxieties not reached such a point but for images assuming highly sensitive and prominent role on Byzantine society

• Cormack: result + symptom of society under radical readaptation to a changing world – disturbance reflected in reassertion of imperial authority

• Whittow: Iconoclasm symptom Chosen people’s need to find favour with God – roots in East but became Byzantine issue – creation Byzantine ideology - rejection Roman heritage of inclusive near Eastern culture – Franks see Byzantium as “Empire of the Greeks” – Jewish tradition in guise of Chosen people – isolated by virtue, never likely to e inclusive attempt to reconquer Near East.

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