Subtle bodies : representing angels in Byzantium / Glenn Peers.
Material type: TextSeries: 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
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520925137
- 0520925130
- 1417523840
- 9781417523849
- 1597349240
- 9781597349246
- BR238
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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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