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Subtle Bodies : Representing Angels in Byzantium /

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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Peers, Glenn
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.