Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era (c. 680-850): The Sources: An annotated surveyVariorum
Leslie Brubaker and John Haldon
ISBN: 0754604187
price: $99.95 hardcover
Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art
that began in Byzantium around 730 and continued for nearly 120
years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination.
Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era is the first book in English to
survey the original sources crucial for a modern understanding of
this most elusive and fascinating period in medieval history. It
is also the first book in any language to cover both the written
and the visual evidence from this period, a combination of
particular importance to the iconoclasm debate. The authors, an
art historian and an historian who both specialize in the period,
have worked together to provide a comprehensive overview of the
visual and the written materials that together help clarify the
complex issues of iconoclasm in Byzantium.
Contents: Introduction; Material Culture: The architecture of
Iconoclasm (by Robert Ousterhout); Manuscripts; Icons; Sculpture
(non-architectural); Textiles; Metalwork; Coins and numismatics;
Epigraphy; Archaeology; Historical geography; Written Sources:
Historiography and chronography; Hagiography and related
writings; Acts of ecclesiastical councils; theological and
polemical writings; Letters; Legal texts and literature; Records,
official and unofficial documents, works of reference;
Non-liturgical verse and epigrammatic literature.
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