Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians / / Thomas F. X. Noble.

In the year 726 C.E., the Byzantine emperor Leo III issued an edict declaring images to be idols, forbidden by Exodus, and ordering all such images in churches to be destroyed. Thus commenced the first wave of Byzantine iconoclasm, which ran its violent course until 787, when the underlying issues w...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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