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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4973970, member: 110504&quot;][USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER], thank you for your invariably incisive comments on the historical and religious context(s).&nbsp; And, from here, for the opportunity to correct an earlier oversight, relative to your observations (back a ways in this thread) about the loss of religious art, only starting with mosaics, during the height of Iconoclasm.</p><p>You&#039;re cordially welcome to consider the source (--Protestant? Busted), but your grief is shared by yours truly, as it should be by the rest of the global human community.</p><p>...Notably with what Daesh, and the Taliban before them, have been doing to our communal cultural heritage that much more recently.</p><p>Except, regarding the possible influence of early Islamic theology on the Iconoclast movement, especially its wholesale destruction of religious imagery across several media, <i>might </i>more immediate ideological factors have been in play?</p><p>First, thank you for your care to frame the possible connection on a speculative level.&nbsp; Next, all I&#039;ve got for Byzantine history as early as this is Norwich, and in the absence of anything more substantive, I&#039;m scared to even look at what he has to say about the subject.&nbsp; But that much of the same thing was carried on in western Europe during the Reformation, by militant Protestants.&nbsp; With that as more recent precedent, I have to wonder whether, in a similar vein, there might have been developments within Byzantine, or at least Christian thought (as broadly conceived), that may have led to this pitch of excess.</p><p>...In which context, your observations about how this came &#039;from the top,&#039; apparently in both political and ecclesiastical circles, are no less resonant, and duly appreciated.&nbsp; ...The people on the ground are always likely to have better sense![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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