Leslie Brubaker Books
The Sacred Image East and West
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A new generation of American medieval art historians explores how sacred images were perceived during the Middle Ages in Byzantium and Europe. Focusing on the relationship between a particular typ...
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Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900
"Gender analysis is one of the most probing ways to understand both power and cultural strategies in pre-industrial societies. In this book sixteen scholars on the cutting edge of their disciplines...
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Byzantium in the iconoclast era c. 680 850
By John F. Haldon, Leslie Brubaker
"Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 720 and continued for nearly 120 years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. This is...
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Inventing Byzantine Iconoclasm
"Byzantine 'iconoclasm' is famous and has influenced iconoclast movements from the English Reformation and French Revolution to Taliban, but it has also been woefully misunderstood: this book shows...
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