Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (ca 680–850): The Sources: An Annotated Survey (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies) [1 ed.] 0754604187, 9780754604181
Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 730 and continued for nearly
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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Original Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Frequently Cited Works
Illustrations
Introduction
PART I MATERIAL CULTURE
1 The Architecture of Iconoclasm
Buildings
Mosaics and Frescoes
Beyond the Empire: The Christian Monuments of Syria and Palestine
2 Manuscripts
Dated Greek Manuscripts, 700-850
Undated Greek Manuscripts with Decoration
Documentary Evidence: Polemical Pamphlets?
3 Icons
The Evidence from Mount Sinai
The Icons
Icons of Questionable Association with Iconoclasm
The Evidence from Texts
Conclusions
4 Sculpture (Non-Architecturai)
Sculpture in the Round: Textual Evidence
Ivories
5 Textiles
Introduction
Silks Known from Written Evidence
Preserved Representational Byzantine Silks
Conclusions
6 Metalwork
7 Coins and Numismatics
Coins and the Economy
Coins: The Material Evidence
8 Sigillography
Seals and their Value
Seals: The Material Evidence
9 Epigraphy
10 Archaeology
11 Historical Geography
PART II THE WRITTEN SOURCES
12 Historiography and Chronography
Introduction
Byzantine Texts
Historical and Chronicle Literature in Other Languages
13 Hagiography and Related Writing
Hagiography: Sources and Genre
Individual Lives
14 Acts of Ecclesiastical Councils
15 Theological and Polemical Writings: Letters, Treatises, Homiletic Literature, Hymnography
Individual Texts and Authors
Other Individual Writers
Anonymous Works
Anti-Jewish and Anti-Heretical Writings
Apocalyptic Writing
16 Letters
17 Legal Texts and Literature
18 Records, Official and Unofficial Documents, Works of Reference
State Documents
Military Treatises
Notitiae Episcopatuum
Itineraries and 'Geographical' Literature
Lexicographical and Bibliographical Literature
19 Non-Liturgical Verse and Epigrammatic Literature
Index
Cover
Half Title
Original Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Frequently Cited Works
Illustrations
Introduction
PART I MATERIAL CULTURE
1 The Architecture of Iconoclasm
Buildings
Mosaics and Frescoes
Beyond the Empire: The Christian Monuments of Syria and Palestine
2 Manuscripts
Dated Greek Manuscripts, 700-850
Undated Greek Manuscripts with Decoration
Documentary Evidence: Polemical Pamphlets?
3 Icons
The Evidence from Mount Sinai
The Icons
Icons of Questionable Association with Iconoclasm
The Evidence from Texts
Conclusions
4 Sculpture (Non-Architecturai)
Sculpture in the Round: Textual Evidence
Ivories
5 Textiles
Introduction
Silks Known from Written Evidence
Preserved Representational Byzantine Silks
Conclusions
6 Metalwork
7 Coins and Numismatics
Coins and the Economy
Coins: The Material Evidence
8 Sigillography
Seals and their Value
Seals: The Material Evidence
9 Epigraphy
10 Archaeology
11 Historical Geography
PART II THE WRITTEN SOURCES
12 Historiography and Chronography
Introduction
Byzantine Texts
Historical and Chronicle Literature in Other Languages
13 Hagiography and Related Writing
Hagiography: Sources and Genre
Individual Lives
14 Acts of Ecclesiastical Councils
15 Theological and Polemical Writings: Letters, Treatises, Homiletic Literature, Hymnography
Individual Texts and Authors
Other Individual Writers
Anonymous Works
Anti-Jewish and Anti-Heretical Writings
Apocalyptic Writing
16 Letters
17 Legal Texts and Literature
18 Records, Official and Unofficial Documents, Works of Reference
State Documents
Military Treatises
Notitiae Episcopatuum
Itineraries and 'Geographical' Literature
Lexicographical and Bibliographical Literature
19 Non-Liturgical Verse and Epigrammatic Literature
Index
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