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Genre/Form: | Conference papers and proceedings History Sources |
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Material Type: | Conference publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Price |
ISBN: | 9781786941275 1786941279 9781789621570 1789621577 |
OCLC Number: | 1176371839 |
Language Note: | Translated from the Greek. |
Notes: | Originally published in 2 volumes paged continuously (2018). This paperback edition is one volume. Paged continuously |
Description: | xiv, 738 pages : map ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | Volume 1. General introduction, Documents before the Council, Session I-IV -- Volume 2. Sessions V-VII, Letters from the Council, Encomium, Canons, Tarasios, letters, Greek appendix, Appendices, Bibliography, Map, Indices. |
Series Title: | Translated texts for historians, v. 68. |
Other Titles: | Acts of the 2nd Council of Nicaea (787) |
Responsibility: | translated with an introduction and notes by Richard Price. |
Abstract:
"The Second Council of Nicaea (787) decreed that religious images were to set up in churches and venerated. It thereby established the cult of icons as a central element in the piety of the Orthodox churches, as it has remained ever since. In the West its decrees received a new emphasis in the Counter-Reformation, in the defence of the role of art in religion. It is a text of prime importance for the iconoclast controversy of eighth-century Byzantium, one of the most explored and contested topics in Byzantine history. But it has also a more general significance - in the history of culture and the history of art. This edition offers the first translation that is based on the new critical edition of this text in the Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum series, and the first full commentary of this work that has ever been written. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers from a variety of disciplines."--
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