Structural Changes in Iconoclasm
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• Problems in the Empire – Justinian’s – ruinous human and financial terms, plague 542 kills loads, de-population, over-extension, over-spending – post Justinian period territorial losses and administrative disintegration – aristocracy lost civic power and new class soldier-landowner emerges, place civil provincial governor taken by military commander – leads to many usurpers
• Structural Changes; demographic factors, plagues – background to Iconoclasm wide-ranging changes in Byzantine world – iconoclasm attempt to fund more stability and certainty in changing world – stability lies in word of emperor, not holy man or icon
• Social changes late 7^th and early 8^th centuries shift centres of Byzantine empire toward oriental population – expense traditional urban centres of Aegean – regionalisation armies, support local Iconoclast emperors
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Other Notes in this Category

1. Byzantine Ideology
2. Historiography
3. Iconclasm and the Ancient City
4. Iconoclasm and the Holy Man
5. Structural Changes in Iconoclasm
6. Theological Backing to Iconoclasm
7. Timeline
8. What is Iconoclasm?
9. Why Iconoclasm?

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