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Author Peers, Glenn.

Title Subtle bodies : representing angels in Byzantium / Glenn Peers.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 235 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The transformation of the classical heritage ; 32
Transformation of the classical heritage ; 32.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-230) and index.
Summary 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.
Contents 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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Subject Orthodox Eastern Church -- Byzantine Empire -- History.
Orthodox Eastern Church.
Byzantine Empire.
History.
Iconoclasm -- Byzantine Empire.
Iconoclasm.
Angels -- Biblical teaching.
Angels -- Biblical teaching.
Angels in art.
Angels in art.
Angels in literature.
Angels in literature.
Byzantine Empire -- Church history.
Church history.
Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Chronological Term 600-1500
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Peers, Glenn. Subtle bodies. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001 0520224051 (DLC) 00055165 (OCoLC)44427072
ISBN 9780520925137 (electronic book)
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