A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World Jenkins Philip
A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World Jenkins Philip In the eighth century, the Byzantine Empire began a campaign to remove or suppress sacred images that…
Specifikacia A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World Jenkins Philip
A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World Jenkins Philip
In the eighth century, the Byzantine Empire began a campaign to remove or suppress sacred images that depicted Christ, the Virgin, or other holy figures, whether in painting, mosaics, murals, or other media. Over the following years, the emperors' zealous movement involved other acts that closely foreshadowed the Reformation movement that would sweep Western Europe in the sixteenth century. In some cases, the campaign extended to breaking or wrecking images through what became known as iconoclasm.
This was a pivotal moment in the definition of Christianity and its relationship to the material creation. Like that later Reformation, iconoclasm marked an authentic revolution in religious sensibility, with all that implied for theology, culture, and visual perceptions of holiness. It was also a time of critical encounters with the other Abrahamic religions of Judaism and