303. Don’t Picture This: Iconoclasm
Is it idolatry to venerate an icon of a saint, or of Christ? The dispute leads the Byzantines to ponder the relation between an image and its object.
• A. Louth (trans.), John of Damascus: Three Treatises on the Divine Images (Crestwood: 2003).
• C. Roth, St Theodor the Studite: On the Holy Icons (Crestwood NY: 1981).
• D. Sahas, Icon and Logos: Sources in Eighth-Century Iconoclasm (Toronto: 1986).
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• T. Anagnostopoulos, “Aristotle and Byzantine Iconoclasm,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 53 (2013), 763-90.
• C. Barber, Figure and Likeness: on the Limits of Representation in Byzantine Iconoclasm (Princeton: 2002).
• L. Brubaker, Inventing Byzantine Iconoclasm (Bristol: 2012).
• L. Brubaker and J.F. Haldon, Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era c. 680-850: a History (Cambridge: 2011).
• A. Bryer and J. Herrin (eds), Iconoclasm: Papers Given at the Ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (Birmingham: 1977).
• K. Parry, Depicting the Word: Byzantine Iconophile Thought of the Eighth and Ninth Centuries (Leiden: 1996).
• T.T. Tollefson, St Theodore the Studite’s Defence of the Icons: Theology and Philosophy in Ninth-Century Byzantium (Oxford: 2018).
Episodes 301 - 327: Byzantine Philosophy
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It's an intriguing episode.
It's an intriguing episode.
Peter, perhaps when you are at Wittgenstein with his picture theory of language, you should make reference to iconophiles. Or iconoclasts?
Wittgenstein
Or sooner than that I can refer back to it when I get to Protestant iconoclasm!
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