Inventing Byzantine iconoclasm
"Byzantine 'iconoclasm' is famous and has influenced iconoclast movements from the English Reformation and French Revolution to Taliban, but it has also been woefully misunderstood: this book shows how and why the debate about images was more complicated, and more interesting, than it has been presented in the past. It explores how icons came to be so important, who opposed them, and how the debate about images played itself out over the years between c. 680 and 850. Many widely accepted assump…
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- Full title :Inventing Byzantine iconoclasm / Leslie Brubaker.
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"Byzantine 'iconoclasm' is famous and has influenced iconoclast movements from the English Reformation and French Revolution to Taliban, but it has also been woefully misunderstood: this book shows how and why the debate about images was more complicated, and more interesting, than it has been presented in the past. It explores how icons came to be so important, who opposed them, and how the debate about images played itself out over the years between c. 680 and 850. Many widely accepted assumptions about 'iconoclasm' - that it was an imperial initiative that resulted in widespread destruction of images, that the major promoters of icon veneration were monks, and that the era was one of cultural stagnation - are shown to be incorrect. Instead, the years of the image debates saw technological advances and intellectual shifts that, coupled with a growing economy, concluded with the emergence of medieval Byzantium as a strong and stable empire."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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- Publication Date:©2012
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bristol Classical Press
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xvi, 134 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781472540768, 147254076X
- oclc:on1097112974
- LC Classification:BR238
- Dewey Decimal:949.502
Table of Contents
List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: what is Byzantine iconoclasm? -- 2. The background -- 3. The beginnings of the image struggle -- 4. Constantine V, the 754 synod and the imposition of an official anti-image policy -- 5. The iconophile intermission -- 6. The iconoclasts return -- 7. The 'triumph of orthodoxy' and the impact of the image crisis -- 8. Conclusions: the impact of iconomachy and the invention of 'iconoclasm' -- Index
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