Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-230) and index
Explores the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in defence of their representations mustered by theologians in the face of iconoclastic opposition. These problems of representation provide a window on Late Antique thought
Cover -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE: ISSUES IN REPRESENTING ANGELS -- TWO: ARGUMENTS AGAINST IMAGES OF ANGELS -- THREE: REPRESENTING ANGELS -- FOUR: THE VENERATION OF ANGELS AND THEIR IMAGES -- FIVE: APPREHENDING THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
