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This book investigates the origins and transformations of medieval image culture and its reflections in theology, hagiography, historiography and art. It deals with a remarkable phenomenon: the fact that, after a period of 500 years of absence, the tenth century sees a revival of monumental sculpture in the Latin West. Since the end of Antiquity and the "pagan" use of free-standing, life-size sculptures in public and private ritual, Christians were obedient to the Second Commandment forbidding the making and use of graven images. Contrary to the West, in Byzantium, such a revival never occurred: only relief sculpture – mostly integrated within an architectural context – was used. However, Eastern theologians are the authors of highly fascinating and outstanding original theoretical reflections about the nature and efficacy of images. How can this difference be explained? Why do we find the most fascinating theoretical concepts of images in a culture that sticks to two-dimensional icons often venerated as cult-images that are copied and repeated, but only randomly varied? And why does a groundbreaking change in the culture of images – the 'revival' of monumental sculpture – happen in a context that provides more restrained theoretical reflections upon images in their immediate theological, liturgical and artistic contexts? These are some of the questions that this book seeks to answer.

Art figuratif --- Beeldhouwkunst [Franse ] --- Beeldhouwkunst [Middeleeuwse ] --- Christelijke heiligen in de kunst --- Christelijke heiligen--Iconografie --- Christelijke heiligen--Kunst --- Christelijke iconografie --- Christian saints in art --- Christian saints--Art --- Christian saints--Iconography --- Figuratieve kunst --- Figuration --- Figurative art --- Golden image of Ste Foy (Statue) --- Heiligen [Christelijke ]--Iconografie --- Heiligen [Christelijke ]--Kunst --- Iconografie [Christelijke ] --- Iconographie chrétienne --- Majesté de sainte Foy (Statue) --- Reliquary of St Foy (Statue) --- Saint Faith (Statue) --- Sainte Foy (Standbeeld) --- Sainte Foy (Statue) --- Saints chrétiens dans l'art --- Saints chrétiens--Art --- Saints chrétiens--Iconographie --- Sculpture [French ] --- Sculpture [Medieval ] --- Sculpture française --- Sculpture mediévale --- St. Faith (Statue) --- Statue der heiligen Fides --- Statue reliquaire de Sainte Foy --- Statue-reliquaire de Sainte Foy --- Christian art and symbolism --- Religious articles --- Sculpture, Medieval --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Objets religieux --- Sculpture médiévale --- Foy, --- Sainte-Foy de Conques (Abbey) --- Image (Theology) --- Catholic Church --- Sculpture, Medieval. --- Christianity and art --- Figurative art. --- Catholic Church. --- St. Faith (Statue). --- Saints chrétiens dans l'art --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Sculpture médiévale --- Foy --- Art --- Christian art and symbolism. --- Image (Theology) - Catholic Church --- Christian art and symbolism - Medieval, 500-1500 - Europe --- Christian art and symbolism - Medieval, 500-1500 - France --- Foy, - Saint, - approximately 290-303