A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 99) (Arabic Edition)

Book info: A Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 99) (Arabic Edition) (Hardcover, 648 pages) – Brill, 2021. Language: English.

Few subjects have generated more argument in early medieval, Byzantine, and Orthodox history than Iconoclasm. Supposedly for more than a century the Orthodox Church and Byzantium were wracked by controversy over religious figural imagery, culminating in 843 in the establishment of icon veneration as a fundamental Orthodox practice. In this multidisciplinary Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm, twelve contributors set the controversy in context and critically examine the key debates: what was the argument about? How much destruction and persecution were there? What caused and fuelled the controversy? What links, if any, were there to events in the Islamic Caliphate and the Latin West? And how can we use our contested literary and material sources to offer answers to these questions? Contributors: Benjamin Anderson, Marie-France Auzépy, Sabine Feist, Mike Humphreys, Robin M. Jensen, Dirk Krausmüller, Andrew Louth, Ken Parry, Richard Price, Christian C. Sahner, and Jesse W. Torgerson. . Editorial Reviews About the Author Mike Humphreys, Ph.D. (2012, University of Cambridge) is a researcher and lecturer at that university. He has published widely on Byzantine history, including Law, Power, and Imperial Ideology in the Iconoclast Era, c.680–850 (OUP: 2015).