The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era: Theology and Art of Christ's Passion
Keefe, Susan, Journal of Church and State
The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era: Theology and Art of Christ's Passion. By Celia Chazelle. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 338 pp. $70.00.
Chazelle, known for her work on the illustrations of the Utrecht Psalter and the role of artistic images in the Carolingian period, explores late eighthand ninth-century theology of the crucifixion in order to explain certain artistic representations of the passion far more fully than has previously been done. While giving attention to wider currents of thought on the passion expressed in both literature and the liturgy, she focuses on the writings against image worship and Spanish adoptionism to provide new ways of viewing …
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Article title: The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era: Theology and Art of Christ's Passion.
Contributors: Keefe, Susan - Author.
Journal title: Journal of Church and State.
Volume: 45.
Issue: 3
Publication date: Summer 2003.
Page number: 593.
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