| A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm Contributor(s): Humphreys, Mike (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004339906 ISBN-13: 9789004339903 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $301.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General - Art | Asian - General - Religion | Eastern |
| Physical Information: 648 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? |