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Author: Leslie Brubaker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-01-06
Total Pages: 943
ISBN-13: 0521430933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A major revisionist survey of this most elusive and fascinating period in medieval history.
Author: Leslie Brubaker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1351953656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 in the Iconoclast Era is the first book in English to survey the original sources crucial for a modern understanding of this most elusive and fascinating period in medieval history. It is also the first book in any language to cover both the written and the visual evidence from this period, a combination of particular importance to the iconoclasm debate. The authors, an art historian and a historian who both specialise in the period, have worked together to provide a comprehensive overview of the visual and the written materials that together help clarify the complex issues of iconoclasm in Byzantium.
Author: Leslie Brubaker
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: 2012-05-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781853997501
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Byzantine ‘iconoclasm' is famous and has influenced iconoclast movements from the English Reformation and French Revolution to Taliban, but it has also been woefully misunderstood: this book shows how and why the debate about images was more complicated, and more interesting, than it has been presented in the past. It explores how icons came to be so important, who opposed them, and how the debate about images played itself out over the years between c. 680 and 850. Many widely accepted assumptions about ‘iconoclasm' – that it was an imperial initiative that resulted in widespread destruction of images, that the major promoters of icon veneration were monks, and that the era was one of cultural stagnation – are shown to be incorrect. Instead, the years of the image debates saw technological advances and intellectual shifts that, coupled with a growing economy, concluded with the emergence of medieval Byzantium as a strong and stable empire.
Author: L . & Haldon Brubaker (J.)
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Published: 2001
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mike Humphreys
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-09-27
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9004462007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: M. T. G. Humphreys
Publisher: Oxford Studies in Byzantium
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0198701578
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Revision of author's thesis (doctoral) -- Cambridge University, 2012.
Author: Brooke Shilling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-10-13
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1107105994
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection explores the ancient fountains of Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul, reviving the senses of past water cultures.
Author: Shay Eshel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-03-20
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9004363831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium, Shay Eshel shows how the Old Testament model of the ancient Israelites was a prominent factor in the evolution of Roman-Byzantine national awareness between the 7th and 13th centuries.
Author: Magdalena Skoblar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04-15
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1108840701
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Innovative study re-positioning the Adriatic as a liminal region between different cultures and faiths before the heyday of Venice.
Author: Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 1438
ISBN-13: 110821021X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume brings into being the field of Byzantine intellectual history. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantium to the life and evolution of ideas in their context, it provides an authoritative history of intellectual endeavors from Late Antiquity to the fifteenth century. At its heart lie the transmission, transformation, and shifts of Hellenic, Christian, and Byzantine ideas and concepts as exemplified in diverse aspects of intellectual life, from philosophy, theology, and rhetoric to astrology, astronomy, and politics. Case studies introduce the major players in Byzantine intellectual life, and particular emphasis is placed on the reception of ancient thought and its significance for secular as well as religious modes of thinking and acting. New insights are offered regarding controversial, understudied, or promising topics of research, such as philosophy and medical thought in Byzantium, and intellectual exchanges with the Arab world.
