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

List of contents

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

About the author

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 Skłodowska Curie Fellow of the European Commission.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Francesca Dell’Acqua, Francesca Dell'Acqua, Francesca Dell''acqua
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780415793728
• ISBN: 978-0-415-79372-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies; Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Christianity, History of Religion, Medieval History, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Church history, History and Archaeology, Byzantine Empire