Forbidden image – an intellectual history of iconoclasm, the
Auteur :
Besancon, Alain
Éditeur :
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN :
9780226044149
Date de publication :
15 mars 2009
Dimensions :
22,4 x 16,6 x 2,7 cm
Poids :
706 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Traces the dual strains of 'iconophilia' and iconoclasm, the privileging and prohibition of religious images, over a span of two-and-a-half millennia in the West. This book addresses arguments regarding the moral authority of the image in European Christianity from the medieval through the early modern periods.