A companion to Byzantine iconoclasm

Author(s)

• Humphreys, M. T. G. (Michael Thomas George)

Bibliographic Information

A companion to Byzantine iconoclasm

edited by Mike Humphreys

（Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, v. 99）

Brill, c2021

Note

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. See inside the book.

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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Details

• NCID: BC11639513
• ISBN:
  • 9789004339903
• LCCN: 2021033871
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 630 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BR238
  • DC23 : 246/.53
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Iconoclasm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA79320574