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Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium
By Glenn Peers
250 pages
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- University of California Press
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Synopsis
"Peers' insightful and wide-ranging study supplies a clear and comprehensive history of the angelic image in cosmology and cult during the formative period prior to Iconoclasm. The paradoxes of the angelic body provide the proving ground for fiercely contested and incompatible claims for text and image as authoritative representations of the holy."--Jeffrey F. Hamburger, author of "Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent"
"[Peers takes] the angelic experience as an instance of ...
"Peers' insightful and wide-ranging study supplies a clear and comprehensive history of the angelic image in cosmology and cult during the formative period prior to Iconoclasm. The paradoxes of the angelic body provide the proving ground for fiercely contested and incompatible claims for text and image as authoritative representations of the holy."--Jeffrey F. Hamburger, author of "Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent"
"[Peers takes] the angelic experience as an instance of the problems inherent in Christian representation. But both astutely and elegantly, he treats angels not simply as an example but as "the "most enlightening case if we wish to understand these problems."--Anthony Cutler, author of "Imagery and Ideology in Byzantine Art"
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Table of contents
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- Subtle Bodies *
- Title Page *
- Contents vii
- Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Abbreviations xiii
- Introduction - On the Tension Between Theology and Cult 1
- One - Issues in Representing Angels 13
- Two - Arguments Against Images of Angels 61
- Three - Images and Theory 89
- Four - The Veneration of Angels and Their Images 126
- Five - Images and Theory 157
- Conclusion 194
- Bibliography 209
- Index 231