REPRESENTATION <i>c</i>. 800: ARAB, BYZANTINE, CAROLINGIAN
Leslie Brubaker
ABSTRACT What could or should be visually represented was a contested issue across the medieval Christian and Islamic world around year 800. This article examines how Islamic, Byzantine, Carolingian Palestinian attitudes toward representation were expressed, differed, seventh eighth centuries. prohibitions against representing human figures not universally recognised, but particularly – if sometimes erratically focused on mosque decoration. Byzantine ‘iconoclasm’ more properly called iconomachy far less destructive than its later offshoots in France England, resulted highly nuanced re-definition of what meant Orthodox church. images whole passionate either views, certain members elite had strong which particular visual expressions. Christians, living under rule, modulated their to conform with local social beliefs. Particularly areas control, then, mattered greatly 800, this why impacted production.
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