The Forbidden Image – An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm - - Alain Besancon - Paperback Bog - The University of Chicago Press - 2009 - Engelsk -
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
Description
Traces the dual strains of 'iconophilia' and iconoclasm, the privileging and prohibition of religious images, over a span of two-and-a-half millennia in the West. This book addresses arguments regarding the moral authority of the image in European Christianity from the medieval through the early modern periods.
