Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Sample paper

A student came by this afternoon and was deeply distressed about the paper.  I tried to calm the student down, after several minutes of tears and tissues I was able to console the student and ensured them that I would paste the first couple of pages of one of my papers from college.  Please see below.  I hope it helps.


 

 

 

 

 

 
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Iconoclasm in the Byzantine Empire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chris Chappell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History 515

Dr. Santoro

March 23, 2010

This is an example of the body of the paper

“The falsely called ‘icon’ neither has its existence in the tradition of Christ or the Apostles or the Fathers, nor is there any prayer of consecration to transpose it from the state of being common to the state of being sacred. Instead, it remains common and worthless as the painter made it.”1

 

 This definition is clearly in favor of Iconoclasm and claims that ‘icons’ bear nothing special whatsoever.2

     The debate over the use of icons in religious worship had been a part of religious debate for years. Prior to the Iconoclastic period, J.F. Haldon tells us,

“Iconoclastic, or anti-image, sentiment was, of course, nothing new in Christian thought. The debate on the nature of icons had long been part of Christian doctrinal discussion and argument, although no developed theory of icons yet existed.”3

 

This however, certainly changed with the introduction of Iconoclasm in the 8th century. During this time many arguments arise to claim the validity of the breaking of icons.
     Prior to the death of Justinian the use of icons may have been in existence but it was not done on a large scale. After the death of Justinian however, Harry J.



1.           Judith Herrin, Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007), 105.
2. Ibid., 105.
3.           J.F. Haldon, Byzantium in the Seventh Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 87.
 
 
Works Cited

Herrin, Judith. Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire. New Jersey: Princeton Univeristy Press, 2007.