Thomas F X Noble

Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In eighth- and ninth-century Byzantium there arose a heated controversy over religious art, known as the "Iconoclastic Controversy." Analyzing hundreds of pages of art-texts, laws, letters, and poems, this book examines the wider context of the debate by providing the first comprehensive study of the Western response to Byzantine iconoclasm.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9780812222562
• ISBN-10: 0812222563
• Artikelnr.: 36939500

Autorenporträt

Thomas F. X. Noble

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: Art, Icons, and Their Critics and Defenders Before the Age of
Iconoclasm
Chapter Two: Byzantine Iconoclasm in the Eighth Century
Chapter Three: Art and Art Talk in the West in the First Age of Iconoclasm
Chapter Four: The Franks and Nicaea: Opus Caroli Regis
Chapter Five: Tradition, Order, and Worship in the Age of Charlemagne
Chapter Six: The Age of Second Iconoclasm
Chapter Seven: Art and Argument in the Age of Louis the Pious
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments