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Author:

Pelikan, Jaroslav, 1923-2006.

Title:

Imago dei : the Byzantine apologia for icons / Jaroslav Pelikan ; With a New Foreword by Judith Herrin.

Edition:

First Princeton paperback edition.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xxiv, 196 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Iconoclasm.
Icons--History of doctrines--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Icons--History of doctrines--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Icons--Cult--Byzantine Empire.
Icon of the Virgin.
Byzantine Empire--Church history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The Idea in the Image -- Chapter 1: The Context Religion and "Realpolitik" Byzantine Style -- Chapter 2: Graven Images The Ambiguity of the Iconographic Tradition -- Chapter 3: Divinity Made Human Aesthetic Implications of the Incarnation -- Chapter 4: The Senses Sanctified The Rehabilitation of the Visual -- Chapter 5: Humanity Made Divine Mary the Mother of God -- Chapter 6: The Great Chain of Images A Cosmology of Icons.

Summary:

His A.W. Mellon lectures in the Fine Arts, delivered in 1987.

Series:

The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; [1987]
Bollingen Series ; XXXV, 36.

ISBN:

0691141258 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691141251 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)690585157

LCCN:

2010049707

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)