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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. See inside the book.

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Author:   Mike Humphreys
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   99
Weight:   1.200kg
ISBN:  

9789004339903

ISBN 10:   9004339906
Pages:   630
Publication Date:   23 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 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

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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).

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