The Dialogue of the monk and recluse Moschos concerning the holy icons, an early iconophile text

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Title :: The Dialogue of the monk and recluse Moschos concerning the holy icons, an early iconophile text
Author :: ALEXAKIS, Alexander ;
Publication year :: 1998
Language :: English ;
Abstract :: Presents the Dialogue of Moschos, a record of an actual or fictitious discussion written as early as the second third of the 5th c. The study is divided into four parts: a brief introduction followed by the editio princeps of the text, an English translation with notes and commentary, and a concluding discussion. Suggests that, no matter how unoriginal the text's argumentation is, the author must have been the first, or at least one of the first, 'pre-iconophile' believers to put these arguments together in order to fomulate a somewhat coherent (though unsophisticated) defense of the veneration of created things. ;
Topic :: 530 - BIBLIOGRAPHIE D'HISTOIRE DE L'ART ;
French keywords :: Byzantin (art) ; Documents ; Icône ; Image ; Traité ; 400-500 ;
Descriptors :: Byzantine ; Documents ; Icons ; Imagery ; Treatises ; 400-500 ;
Document type :: Article ;
Source :: Dumbarton Oaks papers, 1998, 52
INIST identifier :: 24968790 ;
ISSN :: ISSN 0070-7546 ;
Provenance :: Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art ;
Publisher :: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington, DC
Publisher country :: UNITED STATES ;