Inventing Byzantine Iconoclasm

by Leslie Brubaker

Book Overview

Byzantine 'iconoclasm' is famous and has influenced iconoclast movements from the English Reformation and French Revolution to Taliban, but it has also been woefully misunderstood: this book shows how and why the debate about images was more complicated, and more interesting, than it has been presented in the past. It explores how icons came to be so important, who opposed them, and how the debate about images played itself out over the years between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853997501
• ISBN13: 9781853997501
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"