A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm

by Mike Humphreys, Marie-France Auzépy, Benjamin Anderson

Few subjects have generated more argument in early medieval, Byzantine, and Orthodox history than Iconoclasm. Supposedly for more than a century the Orthodox Church and Byzantium were wracked by controversy over religious figural imagery, culminating in 843 in the establishment of icon veneration as a fundamental Orthodox practice. In this multidisciplinary Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm, twelve contributors set the controversy in context...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004339906
• ISBN13: 9789004339903
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 648 Pages