The sixth-century Christ icon in this Chapter (3.2.6)survived the outbreak of iconoclasm that swept the Byzantine Empire in the eighth and ninth centuries by being protected in the monastery of St.Catherine on Mount Sinai,in the middle of the Egyptian desert.Find out more about Byzantine iconoclasm and describe the events of this turbulent period.Who was involved? Where did it happen? Why did religious images,such as the Christ icon,so disturb the iconoclasts?
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