A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm

Buch | Hardcover

648 Seiten

2021
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-33990-3 (ISBN)

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Twelve scholars contextualize and critically examine the key debates about the controversy over icons and their veneration that would fundamentally shape Byzantium and Orthodox Christianity.

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 Auzépy, Sabine Feist, Mike Humphreys, Robin M. Jensen, Dirk Krausmüller, Andrew Louth, Ken Parry, Richard Price, Christian C. Sahner, and Jesse W. Torgerson.

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Mike Humphreys, Ph.D. (2012, University of Cambridge) is a researcher and lecturer at that university. He has published widely on Byzantine history, including Law, Power, and Imperial Ideology in the Iconoclast Era, c.680–850 (OUP: 2015).

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 Auzépy

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 Krasmüller

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

Erscheinungsdatum	24.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition ; 99
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	arabisch; englisch; Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1200 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	90-04-33990-6 / 9004339906
ISBN-13	978-90-04-33990-3 / 9789004339903
Zustand	Neuware