Literary circles in Byzantine iconoclasm : patrons, politics, and saints /

Iconoclasm was the name given to the stance of that portion of eastern Christianity that rejected worshipping God through images (eikones ) representing Christ, the Virgin or the saints and was the official doctrine of the Byzantine Empire for most of the period between 726 and 843. It was a period...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Prieto Domínguez, Óscar, 1981- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Subjects:	Byzantine literature > History and criticism. Iconoclasm in literature. Literature and society > Byzantine Empire. Byzantine Empire > Politics and government.