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Making and breaking the gods : Christian responses to pagan sculpture in Late Antiquity / Troels Myrup Kristensen

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Kristensen, Troels Myrup
Published
Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
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1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Making and breaking the gods: from Roman visual practices to Christian response -- The semantics of Christian response: pagan sculpture in the sacred spaces of Egypt -- Re-imagining idols: Christian responses to pagan sculpture in the urban spaces of the near east
Summary
The basic premise of the book at hand is that there is meaning to be 'excavated' (in both meanings of the word) from Christian responses to pagan sculpture in the period from the fourth to the sixth century. More than mindless acts of religious violence by fanatical mobs, these responses are revelatory of contemporary conceptions of images and the different ways in which the material manifestations of the pagan past could be negotiated in Late Antiquity. Statues were important to the social, political and religious life of cities across the Mediterranean, as well as part of a culture of representation that was intricately bound to bodily taxonomies and visual practices
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ISBN
9788771244120 (electronic bk.)
8771244123 (electronic bk.)
9788771240894
8771240896
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-288) and index
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