Byzantine Defenders of Images: Eight Saints' Lives in English Translation (Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Saints Lives) - Softcover

Talbot, Alice-Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0884022684 ISBN 13: 9780884022688

Verlag: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, 1998

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Byzantine Defenders of Images introduces saints who were active during the period of the iconoclastic controversy in Byzantium (726–843). For almost a century and a half, theological and popular opinions were strongly divided on the question of the manufacture and veneration icons of Christ, the Virgin, and saints. The seven vitae feature holy men and women who opposed imperial edicts and suffered for their defense of images, from the nun Theodosia whose efforts to save the icon of Christ Chalkites made her the first iconodule martyr, to Symeon of Lesbos, the pillar saint whose column was attacked by religious fanatics.

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Alice-Mary Talbot was Director of Byzantine Studies, Emerita, at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and the inaugural editor of the medieval Greek series of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.

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• Verlag: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0884022684
• ISBN 13: 9780884022688
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
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