Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 235 pages)
ISBN:
0520224051
,
0520925130
,
1597349240
,
1282356305
,
1417523840
Serie:
The transformation of the classical heritage 32
Inhalt:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE: ISSUES IN REPRESENTING ANGELS -- TWO: ARGUMENTS AGAINST IMAGES OF ANGELS -- THREE: REPRESENTING ANGELS -- FOUR: THE VENERATION OF ANGELS AND THEIR IMAGES -- FIVE: APPREHENDING THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Z
Inhalt:
Explores the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defence of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic opposition. These problems of representation provide a window on Late Antique thought
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-230) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Peers, Glenn Subtle bodies Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001
Sprache:
Englisch
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