HIST 10800 Lecture 10: West Christianity → Roman Catholic
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A heretic was a person who was viewed by the church as having incorrect religious views. In 730 c. e. , emperor leo iii banned the use of icons, religious images used by eastern. Christians to aid devotion, viewing this as ideal worship, resulting in riots and clergy rebellion. In the west, the pope ordered the excommunication of the byzantine emperor, effectively treating him as an outcast. In 843 c. e. , empress theodora restored icons. In 1054 c. e. , the pope and the patriarch excommunicated each other, due to a dispute over a religious doctrine. The east converted the slavs, who lied north of the black sea. Two of the most successful missionaries, saint methodius and saint cyrus, worked on the cyrillic alphabet, an alphabet for slavic languages. At this time, slavs were creating a culture that would form russia. During holy months of the arabian peninsula, the crossroads of three continents: africa,
