Holy Images and Holy Matter: Images in the Performance of Miracles in the Age before Iconoclasm

This paper asks how images came to be regarded as having miraculous power in the centuries before Iconoclasm. It argues that by the fifth century, the miraculous power of relics was intimately connected with their materiality, specifically the belief that relics were imbued with power by contact wit...

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Main Author: Sweeney, Christopher R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press [2018]
In: Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 111-138
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Relic veneration / Image veneration / Icon / History 400-700
IxTheo Classification:CE Christian art
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
KCD Hagiography; saints
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