A companion to Byzantine iconoclasm
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A companion to Byzantine iconoclasm
(Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, v. 99)
Brill, c2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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?
Contributors: Benjamin Anderson, Marie-France Auzepy, Sabine Feist, Mike Humphreys, Robin M. Jensen, Dirk Krausmuller, Andrew Louth, Ken Parry, Richard Price, Christian C. Sahner, and Jesse W. Torgerson.
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Table of Contents
Preface
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
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. Torgerson and Mike Humphreys
4 Acta, Treatises, and Hagiography
Richard Price
5 Material Culture
Sabine Feist
PART 3
Byzantine Iconoclasm in Action
6 First Iconoclasm, ca. 700-80
Mike Humphreys
7 The Iconophile Intermission and Second Iconoclasm, 780-843
Marie-France Auz e py
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 Krasm u ller
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
Bibliography
Index
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