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Subtle bodies : representing angels in Byzantium / Glenn Peers.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Transformation of the classical heritage ; 32.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, [(c)2001.]Description: 1 online resource (xv, 235 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520925137
  • 0520925130
  • 1417523840
  • 9781417523849
  • 1597349240
  • 9781597349246
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BR238
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Contents:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE: ISSUES IN REPRESENTING ANGELS -- TWO: ARGUMENTS AGAINST IMAGES OF ANGELS -- THREE: REPRESENTING ANGELS -- FOUR: THE VENERATION OF ANGELS AND THEIR IMAGES -- FIVE: APPREHENDING THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Summary: Explores the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defence of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic opposition. These problems of representation provide a window on Late Antique thought.
Item type: Online Book
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Online Book G. Allen Fleece Library Online Non-fiction BR238 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocm55879293\

Includes bibliographies and index.

Explores the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defence of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic opposition. These problems of representation provide a window on Late Antique thought.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE: ISSUES IN REPRESENTING ANGELS -- TWO: ARGUMENTS AGAINST IMAGES OF ANGELS -- THREE: REPRESENTING ANGELS -- FOUR: THE VENERATION OF ANGELS AND THEIR IMAGES -- FIVE: APPREHENDING THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

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