Idol, defend yourself! The cult of images and iconoclastic violence in the Middle Ages
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From ancient times, people not only create images or worship them, but also attack them: they break, burn, sometimes specially exhortive - behead or blind. Most often, violence collapses on the images of (strangers) of the gods and (overwhelmed) rulers. It accompanies the majority of religious and political revolutions, as well as many armed conflicts, but at the same time it is built into everyday life - in the relationship that a person builds with the world of the invisible, power and other people.
This book is devoted to various motives that encouraged to attack visual images in Europe. long Middle Ages .. from. to sweep. Demons and sinners drawn on sheets of manuscripts, before beating the statues of saints, to force them to help. From the iconoclastic war, which the Protestant iconoclasts fought against the Catholic. Idolov., before moral censorship, which was in a hurry to cover or hide the image of naked bodies from the gaze
This book is devoted to various motives that encouraged to attack visual images in Europe. long Middle Ages .. from. to sweep. Demons and sinners drawn on sheets of manuscripts, before beating the statues of saints, to force them to help. From the iconoclastic war, which the Protestant iconoclasts fought against the Catholic. Idolov., before moral censorship, which was in a hurry to cover or hide the image of naked bodies from the gaze
Author:
Author:Майзульс Михаил
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Molded
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-00139-817-2
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