Image, icon, economy : the Byzantine origins of the contemporary economy
This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life-the contemporary imaginary-can be traced back to the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries.
Print Book, English, 2005
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2005
xiii, 264 pages ; 24 cm.
9780804741002, 9780804741019, 080474100X, 0804741018
60651406
1. Principal themes
2. A semantic study of the term Economy
3. The doctrine of the image and icon
4. Sacred precinct and profane space
5. Iconic space and territorial rule
6. The idol's Delenda Est
7. Ghost story
8. The Jew, frontally and in profile
Extracts from the Iconoclast Horos of Hieria
Extracts from the Antirrhetics, by Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople
Translation of: Image, icône, économie : les sources byzantines de l'imaginaire contemporain. Paris : Editions du Seuil, c1996