Description |
1 online resource (488 pages) |
Series |
Middle Ages series
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Contents |
Art, icons, and their critics and defenders before the age of iconoclasm -- Byzantine iconoclasm in the eighth century -- Art and art talk in the west in the first age of iconoclasm -- The Franks and Nicaea: Opus Caroli Regis -- Tradition, order, and worship in the age of Charlemagne -- The age of second iconoclasm -- Art and argument in the age of Louis the Pious |
Summary |
Noble (Notre Dame) has produced a very useful work that will change the way iconoclasm is taught. The book's first half is dedicated to an investigation of late antique and Byzantine images and thoughts about them. It seems not to have been an issue of great concern. The devotional and liturgical use of images, Noble argues, was a recent development by the time of Emperor Leo III's iconoclasm. Chapter 4 is very useful as a study of the Opus Caroli regis contra synodum, formerly known as the Libri Carolini. Carolingian scholars, especially Theodulf, are seen here in perfect command of Byzantine theological concepts. They were not the ignorant bumpkins most have held them to be. Chapters 5-7 constitute a study of the controversy over images in the Carolingian world from the age of Charlemagne to the middle of the ninth century |
Analysis |
"Multi-User" |
Notes |
OldControl:muse9780812202960 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-479) and index |
Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Carolingians.
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Iconoclasm -- Europe
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Carolingians
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Iconoclasm
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Europe
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2008035897 |
ISBN |
9780812202960 |
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0812202961 |
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0812222563 |
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9780812222562 |
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1283890852 |
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9781283890854 |
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