A companion to Byzantine iconoclasm
by Humphreys, M. T. G., (Michael Thomas George)
"Few subjects have generated more argument in early medieval, Byzantine, and Orthodox history than Iconoclasm. Supposedly for more than a century the Orthodox Church and Byzantium were wracked by controversy over religious figural imagery, culminating in 843 in the establishment of icon veneration as a fundamental Orthodox practice. In this multidisciplinary Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm, twelve contributors set the controversy in context and critically examine the key debates: what was the…
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- Full title :A companion to Byzantine iconoclasm / edited by Mike Humphreys.
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"Few subjects have generated more argument in early medieval, Byzantine, and Orthodox history than Iconoclasm. Supposedly for more than a century the Orthodox Church and Byzantium were wracked by controversy over religious figural imagery, culminating in 843 in the establishment of icon veneration as a fundamental Orthodox practice. In this multidisciplinary Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm, twelve contributors set the controversy in context and critically examine the key debates: what was the argument about? How much destruction and persecution were there? What caused and fuelled the controversy? What links, if any, were there to events in the Islamic Caliphate and the Latin West? And how can we use our contested literary and material sources to offer answers to these questions?"--
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- Publication Date:2021
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- Publisher(s):Brill
- Place of Publication:Leiden
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021
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- Description:xvii, 630 pages : : illustrations (chiefly color) ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789004339903, 9004339906
- oclc:on1256627462
- LC Classification:BR238
- Dewey Decimal:246/.53
Table of Contents
Introduction: Contexts, controversies, and developing perspectives / Mike Humphreys -- Part 1. Images before Iconoclasm -- 1. Figural images in Christian thought and practice before ca. 500 / Robin M. Jensen -- 2. Images in Byzantine thought and practice, ca. 500-700 / Benjamin Anderson -- Part 2. The Sources -- 3. Chronicles, histories, and letters / Jesse W. Togerson and Mike Humphreys -- 4. Acts, treatises, and hagiography / Richard Price -- 5. Material culture / Sabine Feist -- Part 3. Byzantine Iconoclasm in Action -- 6. First Iconoclasm, ca. 700-780 / Mike Humphreys -- 7. The Iconophile intermission and second Iconoclasm / Marie-France Auzépy -- Part 4. The Theology of Byzantine Iconoclasm -- 8. The theological argument about images in the 8th century / Andrew Louth -- 9. The theological argument about images in the 9th century / Ken Parry -- 10. The problem of the Holy: Iconoclasm, Saints, relics and monks / Dirk Krausmiller -- Part 5. Iconoclasm East and West -- 11. Images and Iconoclasm in Islam, ca. 600-850 / Christian C. Sahner -- 12. Iconoclasm, images, and the West / Thomas F. X. Noble.
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