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In the second decade of the sixteenth century medieval piety suddenly began to be attacked in some places as 'idolatry', or false religion. Wherever these ideas became accepted, churches were sacked, images smashed and burned, relics destroyed, and the Catholic Mass abolished. T…
This dissertation argues that the biblical analogy between adultery and idolatry generates a rich history of sexual, religious, and political principles—operating through literary motifs, figures, and plots—in Judeo-Christian texts and the secular Renaissance literature that bra…
The Church of Cyprus became an independent exarchy in the fifth century. This cultural autonomy provided Cypriots with a sense of pride and freedom that was not shared by other Byzantine provinces. Since the late fourth century, the Church built many wooden roofed basilicas on t…
Do Byzantine iconoclasts and modern artists have anything in common? Looking back at the Byzantine iconoclastic debates of the eighth and ninth century, I define iconoclasm not as a negative reaction to the visual image in general, but as a rejection of pictorial human represent…
In the 1940s, Otto Demus wrote Byzantine Mosaic Decoration , which he described as "short and slight," though the text is well under 100 pages, its influence has been anything but slight. Two tenets lie at the base of Demus's understanding of post-iconoclastic art: that it refle…
Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present - from a type of absence they do not dispel. Joining a growing multidisciplinary conversation that rejects an understan…
Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present - from a type of absence they do not dispel. Joining a growing multidisciplinary conversation that rejects an understan…
Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present - from a type of absence they do not dispel. Joining a growing multidisciplinary conversation that rejects an understan…
Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present - from a type of absence they do not dispel. Joining a growing multidisciplinary conversation that rejects an understan…
Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present - from a type of absence they do not dispel. Joining a growing multidisciplinary conversation that rejects an understan…
Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present - from a type of absence they do not dispel. Joining a growing multidisciplinary conversation that rejects an understan…