Byzantine Defenders of Images

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-88402-268-8
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

Reihe: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Saints Lives

Byzantine Defenders of Images introduces saints who were active during the period of the iconoclastic controversy in Byzantium (726–843). For almost a century and a half, theological and popular opinions were strongly divided on the question of the manufacture and veneration icons of Christ, the Virgin, and saints. The seven vitae feature holy men and women who opposed imperial edicts and suffered for their defense of images, from the nun Theodosia whose efforts to save the icon of Christ Chalkites made her the first iconodule martyr, to Symeon of Lesbos, the pillar saint whose column was attacked by religious fanatics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Talbot, Alice-Mary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Über Autor(innen)

Talbot, Alice-Mary
Alice-Mary Talbot was Director of Byzantine Studies, Emerita, at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and the inaugural editor of the medieval Greek series of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.