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Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons
Imago Dei The Byzantine Apologia for Icons
Author: Jaroslav Pelikan
In 726 the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, issued an edict that all religious images in the empire were to be destroyed, a directive that was later endorsed by a synod of the Church in 753 under his son, Constantine V. If the policy of Iconoclasm had succeeded, the entire history of Christian art--and of the Christian church, at least in the East--w...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300048414
ISBN-10: 0300048416
Publication Date: 10/1990
Pages: 196
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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