Iconophilia : politics, religion, preaching, and the use of images in Rome, c.680-880 /

"Between the late-seventh and the mid-ninth centuries, a debate about sacred images - conventionally addressed as 'Byzantine iconoclasm' - engaged monks, emperors, and popes in the Mediterranean area and on the European continent. The importance of this debate cannot be overstated; it...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dell'Acqua, Francesca (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies.
Subjects:
Jesus Christ > Art.
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Art.
Catholic Church > Relations > Orthodox Eastern Church.
Orthodox Eastern Church > Relations > Catholic Churh.
Christianity and art > Catholic Church > History > To 1500.
Papacy > History > To 1309.
Idols and images > Worship.
Christian art and symbolism > Medieval, 500-1500 > Themes, motives.
Christianity and art > Orthodox Eastern Church > History > To 1500.
Iconoclasm.
Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Before iconoclasm and its early echoes (680s-750s)
  • 2. Words, images, and religious practices in the iconophile discourse (754-790s)
  • 3. Textual icons : iconophile thinking and preaching in central Italy
  • 4. A glimpse of salvation : Christ as light between the first and second iconoclasm
  • 5. Christ Child as the Lamb of God on the altar
  • 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.

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