Francesca Dell'Acqua

Iconophilia

Politics, Religion, Preaching, and the Use of Images in Rome, C.680 - 880

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Produktbeschreibung

Between the late-seventh and mid-ninth centuries, a debate about sacred images engaged monks, emperors, and popes throughout Europe. Drawing on evidence from texts and material culture, Iconophilia assesses the impact of this debate and of coeval theological controversies in Rome and central Italy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 446
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 920g
• ISBN-13: 9781032235936
• ISBN-10: 1032235934
• Artikelnr.: 62952758

Autorenporträt

Francesca Dell'Acqua is Associate Professor in History of Medieval Art at the Università di Salerno. She received her Ph.D. at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. She has since held research fellowships at the American Academy in Rome, the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, and the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, where she was Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow of the European Commission.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Before Iconoclasm and its Early Echoes (680s-750s)
Chapter 2. Words, Images, and Religious Practices in the Iconophile Discourse (754-790s)
Chapter 3. Textual Icons. Iconophile Thinking and Preaching in Central Italy
Chapter 4. A Glimpse of Salvation. Christ as Light
Chapter 5. Christ Child - the Lamb of God - on the Altar
Chapter 6. Figuring Intercession. The Assumption of Mary
Appendix 1. Mary as Queen of Heaven
Appendix 2. Mary as Gate of Heaven and Ladder to Heaven
Epilogue