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This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life-the contemporary imaginary-can be traced back to the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries.

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Contents @toc4:Translator's Acknowledgments ii Abbreviations ii Foreword ii Introduction ii @toc1:Part One: The Economy @toc2:1 Principal Themes 0 2 A Semantic Study of the Term "Economy" 00 @toc1:Part Two: The Iconic Economy @toc2:3 The Doctrine of the Image and Icon 000 4 Sacred Precinct and Profane Space 000 5 Iconic Space and Territorial Rule @toc1:Part Three: Idols and Veronicas @toc2:6 The Idol's "Delenda est" 7 Ghost Story 8 The Jew, Frontally and in Profile @toc4:Extracts from the Iconoclast "Horos" of Hieria (754) 000 Extracts from the Antirrhetics, by Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Icons, Byzantine, Semiotics

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 23/11/2004
      ISBN13: 9780804741019, 978-0804741019
      ISBN10: 0804741018
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life-the contemporary imaginary-can be traced back to the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries.

      Table of Contents
      Contents @toc4:Translator's Acknowledgments ii Abbreviations ii Foreword ii Introduction ii @toc1:Part One: The Economy @toc2:1 Principal Themes 0 2 A Semantic Study of the Term "Economy" 00 @toc1:Part Two: The Iconic Economy @toc2:3 The Doctrine of the Image and Icon 000 4 Sacred Precinct and Profane Space 000 5 Iconic Space and Territorial Rule @toc1:Part Three: Idols and Veronicas @toc2:6 The Idol's "Delenda est" 7 Ghost Story 8 The Jew, Frontally and in Profile @toc4:Extracts from the Iconoclast "Horos" of Hieria (754) 000 Extracts from the Antirrhetics, by Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Icons, Byzantine, Semiotics

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