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Byzantium in the iconoclast era (c. 680-850) : a history

Author: Leslie Brubaker; John F Haldon
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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"Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 720 and continued for nearly 120 years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. This is the first book in English for over fifty years to survey this most elusive and fascinating period in medieval history. It is also the first book in any language to combine the expertise of two authors who are specialists  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Sources
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Leslie Brubaker; John F Haldon
ISBN: 9780521430937 0521430933
OCLC Number: 650827358
Awards: Winner of PROSE Awards: Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences 2011.
Description: xxiv, 918 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Contents: Belief, ideology, and practice in a changing world --
Leo III : iconoclast or opportunist? --
Constantine V and the institutionalisation of iconoclasm --
The triumph of tradition? The iconophile intermission, 775-813 --
The second iconoclasm --
Economy, society, and state --
Patterns of settlement : urban and rural life --
Social elites and the court --
Society, politics, and power --
Fiscal management and administration --
Strategic administration and the origins of the themata --
Iconoclasm, representation, and rewriting the past.
Responsibility: Leslie Brubaker and John Haldon.
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