Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians. By Thomas F. X. Noble
Not the only of Thomas F. X. Noble’s fresh insights in this big, important book is that the history of iconoclasm is ‘a history with episodes but no plot’ (p. 85). The plot that historians have imposed on medieval iconoclasm is well known. In the eighth century, Emperor Leo III campaigned to rid Chr...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 369-372 |
| Review of: | Images, iconoclasm, and the Carolingians (Philadelphia, Pa. : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2009) (Contreni, John J.)
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| Summary: | Not the only of Thomas F. X. Noble’s fresh insights in this big, important book is that the history of iconoclasm is ‘a history with episodes but no plot’ (p. 85). The plot that historians have imposed on medieval iconoclasm is well known. In the eighth century, Emperor Leo III campaigned to rid Christian worship of images. Later, in the same century, the Second Council of Nicaea (787) restored them. When the news reached the West, the Franks responded with a massive document against Nicaea, the Greeks, and the (mistaken) notion that Nicaea authorized ‘worship’ of images. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flr035 |