| The ablest defender of the iconodule position was, however, the 8th-century theologian St. John of Damascus. |
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| Theodore was an iconodule monk at the time when both monasticism and image veneration were often under oppressive imperial scrutiny. |
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| During the late 6th and 7th centuries, iconodule emperors had viewed themselves in a pietistic fashion, emphasizing their devotion and subservience to God. |
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| She documents every known instance in correspondence, hagiography, and chronicles of women's involvement in the iconoclastic controversy, primarily on the iconodule side. |
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