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"...the Iconoclast debate was about the location of the holy in society, not a small matter... the aim of the Iconoclast emperors, in the face of the Arab threat, was to streamline the whole of Byzantine society and culture, and focus it on a few central symbols, the cross, the eucharist, the capital, the emperor himself, rather than face 'a haemorrhage of the holy... into a hundred little paintings'."
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