Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians

Thomas F. X. Noble

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2009

Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians

Thomas F. X. Noble

In the series The Middle Ages Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202960

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About this book

In eighth- and ninth-century Byzantium there arose a heated controversy over religious art, known as the "Iconoclastic Controversy." Analyzing hundreds of pages of art-texts, laws, letters, and poems, this book examines the wider context of the debate by providing the first comprehensive study of the Western response to Byzantine iconoclasm.

Author / Editor information

Thomas F. X. Noble is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of several books, including The Republic of St. Peter: The Birth of the Papal State, 680-825, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"A magisterial reexamination of a period in which long-lived ideas about the power and limitations of Christian images were first articulated in the medieval West. . . . The book skillfully explores Carolingian discourses about images in relation to Byzantine and papal positions in the eighth and ninth centuries."—Journal of Church History

"Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians presents a rich detailed history of the written debate over religious imagery in the early Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the West, while deemphasizing the violence, destruction, and change so often included by historians in discussions of iconoclasm."—Journal of Religion

"This learned, incisive and readable book has made an important contribution to the study of early medieval art, and more particularly of a whole religious culture."—Early Medieval Europe

"Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians is remarkably scholarly, surveying secondary literature in both Byzantine East and Latin West, and in many different disciplines, including theology and art history as well as history. It is a splendid book. It will be a standard reference for many years to come."—Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware

"[An] immensely scholarly and interesting book on the Carolingian response to the drama of iconoclasm in Byzantium."—TLS

"A deeply impressive, powerfully argued, and extraordinarily interesting book. Noble establishes the centrality of the Carolingian period and its writers to the development of ideas about sacred art. He offers a new interpretation of the understanding of images in both the western and eastern empires in the early Middle Ages."—Rosamond McKitterick, University of Cambridge

"This book will no doubt become a standard reference for early medievalists and art historians interested in early medieval discourse on Christian figural art and its wider contexts."—American Historical Review

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter one. Art, Icons, and Their Critics and Defenders Before the Age of Iconoclasm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Chapter two. Byzantine Iconoclasm in the Eighth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Chapter three. Art and Art Talk in the West in the First Age of Iconoclasm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter four. The Franks and Nicaea: Opus Caroli Regis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Chapter five. Tradition, Order, and Worship in the Age of Charlemagne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Chapter six. The Age of Second Iconoclasm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Chapter seven. Art and Argument in the Age of Louis the Pious Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	366
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 496
Keywords: History; Medieval and Renaissance Studies

eBook

Published: February 25, 2012
ISBN: 9780812202960