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She Smiled on Constantinople - Softcover

Spector, Reynold

 
9781435713178: She Smiled on Constantinople
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1435713176 ISBN 13: 9781435713178
Verlag: Lulu.com, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

In 717 AD, Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium), appeared doomed. In the preceding eighty years, Muslim Arabs had captured much of North Africa and the Middle East, and were poised to take Constantinople. To save Byzantium, the senate asked a Roman General, Leo III, to become Emperor. Leo and his brilliant son Constantine V radically altered the Byzantine imperial system militarily and culturally. Leo developed a novel idea - that God was angry with the Byzantine Christians because they worshiped Christian icons, relics, and pagan idols, thus ignoring the Second Commandment. God would favor the Byzantines only if they destroyed their icons and purified Christianity. Leo's policy set in motion a century-long conflict between the iconoclast (icon breaker) emperors and the iconophiles (icon lovers). This religious struggle culminated in a final battle to define Byzantine Christianity and the control of the Empire. This novel recounts who won, why and how.

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Verlag
Lulu.com
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1435713176
ISBN 13 
9781435713178
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
328
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