A Companion To Byzantine Iconoclasm Mike Humphreys by Mike Humphreys 9789004462007, 9004462007 instant download after payment.

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.