VIII. century and IX. century

VIII. century - the time of religious conflict, which will again weaken the empire and further away

Patriarchate of Constantinople of the Roman Pope

- The cult of icons (sacred images) - appear to be religious currents that are considered worship icons

idolatry, iconodules (worship icons) and iconoclasts (destroying icons)

- Cult icons corresponding to the part of the clergy who at that collects revenue, since they are

secular and spiritual in Byzantium intertwined iconodules and iconoclasts are also political

customers

- 730. Emperor Leo (The Lion) III. prohibited the veneration of icons

- 843 on the church council sentenced the iconoclasts and established a cult icon

- Pope condemned both end position on the icon

IX. century - the time of recovery of the Empire, from 867 at the government's Basil I (the Macedonian

dynasty)

- In the ninth. century begins feudalism Byzantium: landowners and church converted

free peasants into serfs (parike)

- Byzantine feudalism will be given final shape in the XI. st. when it introduces a system of sharing

lena (Pronija) deserving nobility