商品簡介
Brubaker (Byzantine art, U. of Birmingham, the UK), who has published extensively on Byzantine art, has written an engaging introductory text that gives a full account of the complex phenomenon of Byzantine destruction and prohibition against religious images in the 7th-9th centuries, describing how icons were used, the powers attributed to icons, the arguments for and against their use, the interim era when icons were allowed, and the changes in theology that came about when the struggle over icons ended. An annotated list of references is included, arranged by topic. Distributed by International Publishers Marketing. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Leslie Brubaker is Professor of Byzantine Art and Director of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Vision and Meaning in Ninth-century Byzantium (1999), co-editor of Gender and the Transformation of the Roman World, 300-900 (2003) and Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era c. 680-850: a history (2011).
