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1	Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently more books like this by Gregory Berns add to wishlist No organization can survive without iconoclasts--innovators who single-handedly upturn conventional wisdom and manage to achieve what so many others deem impossible. Neuroscientist Berns describes practical ways to understand and unleash an individual's potential to think differently. see all copies from $18.75! new only from $18.75! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Three Treatises on the Divine Images more books like this by Gilbert W Cole, Sir Andrew Louth (Translator) add to wishlist In AD 726, the Byzantine emperor ordered the destruction of all icons, or religious images, throughout the empire, and icons were subject to an imperial ban that was to last, with a brief remission, until AD 843. A defender of icons, St John of Damascus wrote three treatises against "those who attack the holy images." He differentiates between the ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $14.00! \| first editions
3	The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm more books like this by Alain Besancon, Professor Jane Marie Todd (Translator) add to wishlist The significance of religious icons has been a prickly point for theologians and philosophers ever since their high ranking in the Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Besancon discusses the varying trends of iconophilia and iconoclasm in this history of the aesthetics and philosophy of the representation of God throughout ... see all copies from $27.21! new only from $27.21! \| SVS
4	On the Divine Images more books like this by St John of Damascus, David Anderson (Translator) add to wishlist St John of Damascus wrote the treatises Against Those Who Attack the Divine Images in response to the iconoclastic heresy of the eighth century. see all copies from $5.25! new only from $90.01!
5	Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel more books like this by Lee P Wandel add to wishlist This is an exploration of the motivation and significance of acts of iconoclasm during the Reformation. The role played by 'ordinary' Christians in the Reformation is established. see all copies from $13.00! new only from $24.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The Patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople: Ecclesiastical Policy and Image Worship in the Byzantine Empire more books like this by Paul Julius Alexander add to wishlist see all copies from $11.50! new only from $28.40! \| first editions
7	The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution more books like this by Dario Gamboni add to wishlist Now available in paperback, this is the first comprehensive examination of modern iconoclasm. Dario Gamboni looks at deliberate attacks carried out - by institutions as well as individuals - on paintings, buildings, sculptures and other works of art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Truly international in scope, "The Destruction of Art" ... see all copies from $22.45! new only from $33.81! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England more books like this by Professor Sarah Stanbury add to wishlist Little remains of the rich visual culture of late medieval English piety. The century and a half leading up to the Reformation had seen an unparalleled growth of devotional arts, as chapels, parish churches, and cathedrals came to be filled with images in stone, wood, alabaster, glass, embroidery, and paint of newly personalized saints, angels, ... see all copies from $33.95! new only from $49.75! \| SVS
9	The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic more books like this by Linda Gregerson, Dr. Stephen Orgel (Editor), Anne Barton (Editor) add to wishlist The Reformation of the Subject is a study of the cultural contradictions that gave birth to the English Protestant epic. In lucid and theoretically sophisticated language, Linda Gregerson examines the fraught ideological, political and gender conflicts that are woven into the texture of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost. She reminds us that ... see all copies from $46.75! new only from $46.75! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Journal of William Dowsing: Iconoclasm in East Anglia During the English Civil War more books like this by Trevor Cooper (Editor) add to wishlist During the Civil War, in late 1643 and 1644, the Suffolk puritan William Dowsing visited some hundred parish churches in Cambridgeshire, and about a hundred and fifty in Suffolk, smashing stained glass and other 'superstitious' imagery, ripping up monumental brass inscriptions, destroying altar rails and steps, and pulling down crucifixes and ... see all copies from $84.99! new only from $94.84! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Figure and Likeness: On the Limits of Representation in Byzantine Iconoclasm more books like this by Charles Barber add to wishlist "Figure and Likeness" presents a thought-provoking new account of Byzantine iconoclasm - the fundamental crisis in Christian visual representation during the eighth and ninth centuries that defined the terms of Christianity's relationship to the painted image. Charles Barber rejects the conventional means of analyzing this crisis, which seeks its ... see all copies from $46.86! new only from $49.95! \| SVS
12 view cover	Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians more books like this by Thomas F X Noble add to wishlist In the year 726 C.E., the Byzantine emperor Leo III issued an edict declaring images to be idols, forbidden by Exodus, and ordering all such images in churches to be destroyed. Thus was set off the first wave of Byzantine iconoclasm, which ran its violent course until 787, when the underlying issues were temporarily resolved at the Second Council ... see all copies from $49.75! new only from $49.75! \| SVS
13 view cover	God's Human Face: The Christ-Icon more books like this by Christoph Cardinal Schonborn, Christoph Schoenborn add to wishlist see all copies from $13.01! new only from $13.01! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Negating the Image: Case Studies in Iconoclasm more books like this by Anne L McClanan add to wishlist Why do people attack monuments and other public objects charged with authority by the societies that produced them? What do open assaults on images and artworks mean? Iconoclasm, the principled destruction of images, has recurred throughout human history as theory and practice. This book contains seven historical studies of the changing causes and ... see all copies from $110.14! new only from $110.14!
15 view cover	Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England: Textuality and the Visual Image more books like this by Jeremy Dimmick (Editor), James Simpson (Editor), Nicolette Zeeman (Editor) add to wishlist This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of images, both their making and their breaking, into an earlier period and wider discursive territories. Pressures towards iconoclasm are powerfully registered in fourteenth and fifteenth-century writings, both heterodox and orthodox, just as the ... see all copies from $143.50! new only from $143.50!
16 view cover	Iconoclasm: Contested Objects, Contested Terms more books like this by Stacy Boldrick add to wishlist The word 'iconoclasm' is most often used in relation to sculpture, because it is sculptures that most visibly bear witness to physical damage. But damage can also be invisible, and the actions of iconoclasm can be subtle and varying. Iconoclastic acts include the addition of objects and accessories, as well as their removal, or may be represented ... see all copies from $102.40! new only from $102.40!
17 view cover	Iconoclasm and Iconoclash: Struggle for Religious Identity more books like this by Willem Vanasselt, Paul Vangeest, Daniela Muller add to wishlist In the history of Jewish, Christian and Muslim culture, religious identity was not only formed by historical claims but also by the usage of certain images: "images of God", "images of the others", "images of the self." This work focuses on iconoclastic controversies and their impact on the process of creating religious identity. see all copies from $227.48! new only from $227.48!
18	England's Iconoclasts: Volume I: Laws Against Images more books like this by Margaret Aston add to wishlist This is a study of the enormous religious reversal that England experienced as the avoidance of idolatry became a priority of the Reformation. Opposition to church images was a feature of English life from Wyclif to Oliver Cromwell. It was an aspect of reform that affected all believers, from theologians who wrote so massively on the topic of ... see all copies from $96.23! new only from $164.77!
19 view cover	Images of the Divine: The Theology of Icons at the Seventh Ecumenical Council more books like this by Ambrosios Giakalis add to wishlist This work deals with the theological debates of the Seventh Ecumenical Council of 787, which fixed the theology of icons for the Eastern Orthodox Church to the present day. The study is divided into seven chapters. The first discusses the origins of the controversy, sets the historical scene and descibes the day-to-day progress of the council. ... see all copies from $132.96! new only from $132.96!
20	La Vie D'Etienne Le Jeune more books like this by Stephen add to wishlist This volume is a primary source for the history of the first byzantine iconoclasm (730-787) and the iconodoulic reaction (787-8150). The "Life of Stephen the Younger", written in 809 by a deacon of St Sophia, offers a vivid portrayal of the reign of the iconoclast emperor Constantine V - the so called Christian emperor who destroyed Christ's image ... see all copies from $117.61! new only from $130.31!
21	Spenserian Poetics: Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Magic more books like this by Kenneth Gross add to wishlist see all copies from $25.00!
22 view cover	Puritan Iconoclasm During the English Civil War more books like this by Julie Spraggon add to wishlist This work offers a detailed analysis of Puritan iconoclasm in England during the 1640s, looking at the reasons for the resurgence of image-breaking a hundred years after the break with Rome, and the extent of the phenomenon. Initially a reaction to the emphasis on ceremony and the 'beauty of holiness' under Archbishop Laud, the attack on ... see all copies from $92.51! new only from $92.51!
23 view cover	Die Welt Der Gotterbilder by Brigitte Groneberg, Hermann Spieckermann, Frauke Weiershauser add to wishlist Divine images create their own world of theological reflection and religious practice. Pictorial representations have to reduce complexity, yet at the same time they create their own complexity. The present volume examines this phenomenon with papers on fundamental issues and presentations of material from the Ancient Orient, Greece and the ... see all copies from $163.38! new only from $163.38!
24 view cover	Der Ikonoklasmus Des Westens more books like this by Helmut Feld add to wishlist This present work of nine chapters portrays iconoclastic trends within Western Christianity from the Early Middle Ages up to the time of the French Revolution. The primary intent of this work is an explanation of the important iconoclastic movements - their origins and their theoretical foundations and motives. Parallel to this, the book deals ... see all copies from $132.96! new only from $132.96!
25	Discours Contre Les Iconoclastes: Discussion Et Refutation Des Bavardages Ignares, Athees Et Tout a Fait Creux de L'Irreligieux Mamon2 Contre L'Incarn more books like this by Nicephorus add to wishlist see all copies from $122.50! new only from $122.50!

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