Comments | saucypunk: hey kids, history is fun!

saucypunk

hey kids, history is fun!

Apr 21, 2007 13:29

oh man! so I'm writing my Christian History paper on the crisis around iconography in the 8th/9th centuries, and the 2nd council of Nicaea in 787 which codified the orthodox position on images. And it turns out that while the emperor Leo IV was an iconoclast and maintained the iconoclastic laws of his father, his wife Irene was actually an " ( Read more... )

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christychristy April 24 2007, 17:53:08 UTC

By the way, I thought this was really interesting.

Also, I understand from Diane that she is going to be taking some intiative with the whole in care thing and might be calling you to see where you are with things.

saucypunk April 25 2007, 19:24:56 UTC

yeah, thanks, she called me and once i am not insane i need to be in touch with her.

i will definitely post this paper when i'm done with it! I did a ton of research after i posted this, and then the first book i opened was like, "well, yeah, there's a common scholarly assumption that women were more devoted to icons because they could worship in the home without a priest, but i think that's a load of misogynist crap and here's why." so i have a ton of stuff to write about and am trying to narrow down my topic a little!