Initial Publication Date: December 3, 2012
HIST 202: Iconoclasm in the Early Middle Ages
Instructor: William NorthHistory
Winter 2012
Display of Student Posters
February 3, 2012
What roles do images play in society? What are these images thought to be and to do? Why, at particular moments, have certain groups attempted to do away with images either completely or in specific settings? How do images create and threaten communities and power structures, and how is the management of the visual integrated with and shaped by other values, structures, and objectives? This course will examine these questions by looking in depth at the theory and practice of iconoclasm in Byzantium, early Islam, and the early medieval West.