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Byzantium in the iconoclast era (ca.680-850) : the sources : an annotated survey / Leslie Brubaker, John Haldon ; with a section on the architecture of iconoclasm : the buildings by Robert Ousterhout.

Van Pelt Library DF591 .B78 2001
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Brubaker, Leslie.
Contributor:
Haldon, John F.
Ousterhout, Robert G.
Series:
Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman monographs
Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman monographs.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
History.
Byzantine Empire--History--527-1081--Sources.
Byzantine Empire.
Genre:
Sources.
Physical Description:
xxxi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Aldershot ; Burlington : Ashgate, [2001]
Contents:
Part I Material Culture
1 The Architecture of Iconoclasm 3
Buildings
Mosaics and Frescoes
Beyond the Empire: The Christian Monuments of Syria and Palestine
2 Manuscripts 37
Dated Greek Manuscripts, 700-850
Undated Greek Manuscripts with Decoration
Documentary Evidence: Polemical Pamphlets?
3 Icons 55
The Evidence from Mount Sinai
Icons of Questionable Association with Iconoclasm
The Evidence from Texts
4 Sculpture (Non-Architectural) 75
Sculpture in the Round: Textual Evidence
Ivories
5 Textiles 80
Silks Known from Written Evidence
Preserved Representational Byzantine Silks
6 Metalwork 109
7 Coins and Numismatics 116
Coins and the Economy
Coins: The Material Evidence
8 Sigillography 129
Seals and their Value
Seals: The Material Evidence
9 Epigraphy 141
10 Archaeology 146
11 Historical Geography 159
Part II The Written Sources
12 Historiography and Chronography 165
Byzantine Texts
Historical and Chronicle Literature in Other Languages
13 Hagiography and Related Writing 199
Hagiography: Sources and Genre
Individual Lives
14 Acts of Ecclesiastical Councils 233
15 Theological and Polemical Writings: Letters, Treatises, Homiletic Literature, Hymnography 243
Individual Texts and Authors
Other Individual Writers
Anonymous Works
Anti-Jewish and Anti-Heretical Writings
Apocalyptic Writing
16 Letters 276
17 Legal Texts and Literature 286
18 Records, Official and Unofficial Documents, Works of Reference 294
State Documents
Military Treatises
Notitiae Episcopatuum
Itineraries and 'Geographical' Literature
Lexicographical and Bibliographical Literature
19 Non-Liturgical Verse and Epigrammatic Literature 305.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0754604187
OCLC:
45767051

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