TY  - GEN
T1  - Subtle bodies : representing angels in Byzantium
T2  - Transformation of the classical heritage ;
A1  - Peers, Glenn
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2001
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm55879293
AB  - Explores the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defence of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic opposition. These problems of representation provide a window on Late Antique thought.
AB  - "Peers makes excellent use of primary sources in considering this intellectually challenging question. He looks at icons of angels, saints' lives, legends and hagiographic narratives of angelic apparitions, the writings of Greek church fathers, and other texts to show how strategies were devised to cope with these representational difficulties. Many of these sources have never been brought together into one account, and Peers elicits novel and striking connections across the texts, as well as between the texts and images." "Peers brings to bear modern approaches - including Michael Foucault's ideas concerning Rene Magritte - on questions of representation in Byzantium. In showing how this culture sought to represent the unrepresentable, Peers sheds much light on early Christian theology, aesthetics, and popular devotion as he unravels the complex interplay among biblical texts, theological thought, church doctrine, and artistic creativity."--BOOK JACKET.
OP  - 235
CN  - BR238 .P42 2001eb
SN  - 9780520925137
SN  - 0520925130
SN  - 1417523840
SN  - 9781417523849
SN  - 9780520224056
SN  - 0520224051
SN  - 1597349240
SN  - 9781597349246
SN  - 9786612356308
SN  - 6612356308
SN  - 1282356305
SN  - 9781282356306
KW  - Orthodox Eastern Church : Byzantine Empire : History.
KW  - Orthodox Eastern Church : History.
KW  - Église orthodoxe : Histoire.
KW  - Orthodox Eastern Church
KW  - Iconoclasm : Byzantine Empire.
KW  - Angels : Biblical teaching.
KW  - Angels in art.
KW  - Angels in literature.
KW  - Byzantine Empire : Church history.
KW  - Church history : Middle Ages, 600-1500.
KW  - Iconoclasme : Empire byzantin.
KW  - Anges : Enseignement biblique.
KW  - Anges dans l'art.
KW  - Anges dans la littérature.
KW  - Église : Histoire : 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
KW  - RELIGION : Christian Theology : Angelology & Demonology.
KW  - HISTORY : Ancient : General.
KW  - Angels : Biblical teaching
KW  - Angels in art
KW  - Angels in literature
KW  - Church history : Middle Ages
KW  - Iconoclasm
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - 600-1500
KW  - aesthetics.
KW  - ancient world.
KW  - angels in art.
KW  - angels in literature.
KW  - angels.
KW  - archangel.
KW  - art.
KW  - barberini diptych.
KW  - bible.
KW  - bodies.
KW  - byzantine art.
KW  - byzantium.
KW  - cherub.
KW  - cherubim.
KW  - church doctrine.
KW  - divinity.
KW  - early christian theology.
KW  - early church.
KW  - embodiment.
KW  - folk belief.
KW  - folk religion.
KW  - greece.
KW  - hagiography.
KW  - hellenism.
KW  - iconoclasm.
KW  - icons.
KW  - literature.
KW  - madonna.
KW  - magritte.
KW  - michael.
KW  - middle ages.
KW  - religion.
KW  - religious practices.
KW  - saints legends.
KW  - saints lives.
KW  - saints.
KW  - sarcophagus.
KW  - theology.
KW  - unrepresentable.
KW  - virgin and child.
KW  - Church history
KW  - History
ER  -