Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (787)

AvRichard Price

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Single-bound two-volume setThe Second Council of Nicaea (787) decreed that religious images were to set up in churches and venerated. It thereby established the cult of icons as a central element in the piety of the Orthodox churches, as it has remained ever since. In the West its decrees received a new emphasis in the Counter-Reformation, in the defence of the role of art in religion. It is a text of prime importance for the iconoclast controversy of eighth-century Byzantium, one of the most explored and contested topics in Byzantine history. But it has also a more general significance – in the history of culture and the history of art. This edition offers the first translation that is based on the new critical edition of this text in the Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum series, and the first full commentary of this work that has ever been written. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers from a variety of disciplines.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-07-13
Mått:147 x 210 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Translated Texts for Historians
Antal sidor:796
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781786941275

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Richard Price is Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity, Heythrop College and Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London. His many previous publications include The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649 (with P. Booth & C. Cubitt, Liverpool 2014), The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (Liverpool 2018), The Council of Ephesus of 431 (with T. Graumann, Liverpool 2020), Canons of the Quinisext Council (691/2) (Liverpool 2020) and The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 869-70 (with Federico Montinaro, Liverpool 2022).

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‘The present work [The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea] is perhaps the finest Price has done so far… Price wades into [iconoclasm’s] complex debates with judicious skill. His seventy-six-page introduction contains one of the most succinct, balanced and insightful overviews of the subject currently in print… this is exactly what a translation should be: accurate, accessible and informative.’ Mike Humphreys, Journal of Roman Studies