Image, icon, economy : the Byzantine origins of the contemporary imaginary /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mondzain, Marie-José.
Uniform title:	Image, icône, économie. English
Imprint:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.
Description:	xiii, 264 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cultural memory in the present
Subject:	Icons, Byzantine. Semiotics. Icons, Byzantine. Semiotics.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5547378

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ISBN:	080474100X (cloth : alk. paper) 0804741018 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Translation of: Image, icône, économie : les sources byzantines de l'imaginaire contemporain. Paris : Editions du Seuil, c1996. Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-264).

Table of Contents:

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.