Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, C. 680-850: A History

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Cambridge University Press, 2011. gada 6. janv. - 918 lappuses
Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 720 and continued for nearly one hundred and twenty years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. This is the first book in English for over fifty years to survey this most elusive and fascinating period in medieval history. It is also the first book in any language to combine the expertise of two authors who are specialists in the written, archaeological and visual evidence from this period, a combination of particular importance to the iconoclasm debate. The authors have worked together to provide a comprehensive overview of the visual, written and other materials that together help clarify the complex issues of iconoclasm in Byzantium. In doing so they challenge many traditional assumptions about iconoclasm and set the period firmly in its broader political, cultural and social-economic context.
 

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Introduction
1
Belief ideology and practice in a changing world
9
iconoclastoropportunist? 69
69
ConstantineVandtheinstitutionalisationoficonoclasm 156
156
232
232
The triumph of tradition? The iconophile intermission
248
The second iconoclasm 366
366
386
386
Social elites and the court 573
573
Society politics and power 625
625
Fiscal management and administration 665
665
anthypatoi 671
671
Strategic administration and the origins of the themata__ 723
723
change and development in the eighth and ninth
729
Iconoclasm representation and rewriting the past 772
772
Sources 800
800

Economy society and state 453
453
519
519
urban and rural life 531
531
Literature 815
815
Index 907
907
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John Haldon is Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies. His previous publications include Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformation of a Culture (1990; revised edition 1997) and Byzantium: A History (2000). He has edited The Social History of Byzantium: Problems and Perspectives (2008) and co-edited, with Elizabeth Jeffreys and Robin Cormack, The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (2008).

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