Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 04 February 2021

Explores the literary texts produced during Byzantine Iconoclasm and their use as ideological tools by the main political circles.

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 25 July 2022

The ninth-century Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes is the most influential historical text ever written in medieval Constantinople. Yet modern historians have never explained its popularity and power.

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 13 November 2023

This volume explores concepts of fiction in late antique hagiographical narrative in different cultural and literary traditions. It includes Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, Persian and Arabic material. Whereas scholarship in

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 27 September 2021

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.

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 15 June 2023

Incorporating the latest scholarly developments to offer an in-depth account of the history of the Byzantine Empire, this revised edition sheds new light on the Empire's culture, theology, and economic

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 24 August 2023

The first three hundred years of the common era witnessed critical developments that would become foundational for Christianity itself, as well as for the societies and later history that emerged

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 26 May 2024

This title presents an important re-examination of the Byzantine iconoclasm - the widespread phenomenon of destruction of images that took place in the 7th to 9th centuries AD - by

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 02 March 2017

Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 730 and continued for nearly 120 years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. Byzantium

• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
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• Release Date : 25 February 2012

In the year 726 C.E., the Byzantine emperor Leo III issued an edict declaring images to be idols, forbidden by Exodus, and ordering all such images in churches to be

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 05 December 2016

The phenomenon of iconoclasm, expressed through hostile actions towards images, has occurred in many different cultures throughout history. The destruction and mutilation of images is often motivated by a blend