The Graeco-Roman and Oriental Background of the iconoclastic controversy. [Mit Kt. -Skizze.]
Author: Leslie William Barnard
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9789004039445
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Leslie William Barnard
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9789004039445
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Barnard
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-08-21
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9004610618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bee Yun
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Published: 2011-08-08
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 3593394049
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Our conception of cultures and cultural change has altered dramatically in recent decades: no longer do we understand cultures as isolated units; rather, we see them as hybrid formations constantly engaged in a multidirectional process of exchange and influence with other cultures. Yet the very process by which we represent these cultural transfers is itself subject to cultural, political, and ideological conditions that affect our understanding, acknowledgment, and representation of them. Built around concrete examples of controversial representations of cultural transfer from Asia, the Arab world, and Europe, Cultural Transfers in Dispute presents a critical self-reflection on the scholarly practices that underpin our attempts to study and describe other cultures.
Author: Christopher Kleinhenz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 1648
ISBN-13: 135166445X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century. It presents in two volumes articles on a wide range of topics including history, literature, art, music, urban development, commerce and economics, social and political institutions, religion and hagiography, philosophy and science. This illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource and will be of key interest not only to students and scholars of history but also to those studying a range of subjects, as well as the general reader.
Author: G. W. Bowersock
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006-11-15
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780674022928
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the past century, exploration and serendipity have uncovered mosaic after mosaic in the Near East—maps, historical images and religious scenes constituting a treasure of new testimony from antiquity. In them, Bowersock finds historical evidence, illustrations of literary and mythological tradition, religious icons, and monuments to civic pride.
Author: Naoko Shibusawa
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006-12-15
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780674023482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia. In this revelatory work, Naoko Shibusawa charts the remarkable reversal from hated enemy to valuable ally that occurred in the two decades after the war.
Author: G.R. Evans
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-05-02
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1786722232
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What did people really believe in the Middle Ages? Much of our sense of the medieval period has come down to us from the writings of the learned: the abbots, priors, magnates, scholastic theologians and others who between them, and across Christendom, controlled the machinery of church and state. For G R Evans too much emphasis has been placed on a governing elite and too little on those - the great mass of the semi-literate and illiterate, and the emergent middle classes - who stood outside the innermost circles of ecclesiastical power, privilege and education. Her book finally gives proper weight to the neglected literature of demotic religion: the lives of saints; writings by those - including lay women - who had mystical experiences; and lively texts containing stories for popular edification. Ranging widely, from the fall of Rome to the ideas of the Reformation, the author addresses vital topics like the appeal of monasticism, the lure of the Crusades, the rise of the friars and the acute crisis of heresy. As Evans reveals, medieval Christianity was shaped above all by its promise of salvation or eternal perdition.
Author: Florin Curta
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2016-11-28
Total Pages: 1514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This three-volume set presents fundamental information about the most important events in world religious history as well as substantive discussions of their significance and impact. This work offers readers a broad and thorough look at the greatest events in world religious history, covering a wide range of religions, time periods, and areas around the globe. The entries present authoritative information and informed viewpoints written by expert contributors that enable readers to easily learn about the chief events in religious history, help them to better understand the course of world history, and promote a greater respect for culturally diverse religious traditions. The first of the three volumes covers religion from the preliterary world through around AD 600; the second, the post-classical era from 600 to 1450; and the third, the modern era from 1450 to the present. Each volume begins with a substantive introduction that discusses the history of world religions during the period covered by the volume. The chronologically ordered entries overview each event, place it in historical context, and identify the reasons for its enduring significance.
Author: Ambrosios Giakalis
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2005-08-01
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9047407288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, newly revised and updated, examines the Eastern Church's theology of icons chiefly on the basis of the acta of the Seventh Ecumenical Council of 787. The political circumstances leading to the outbreak of the iconclast controversy in the eighth century are discussed in detail, but the main emphasis is on the theological arguments and assumptions of the council participants. Major themes include the nature of tradition, the relationship between image and reality, and the place of christology. Ultimately the argument over icons was about the accessibility of the divine. Icons were held by the iconophiles to communicate a deifying grace which raised the believer to participation in the life of God.