The Catholic Historical Review, January 1st, 2002
The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm. By Alain Besancon. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2000. Pp. viii, 423. $40.00.) Besancon is director of studies at L'E'cole des Hautes etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and expert in Russian politics and intellectual history. His entrance here into discussion of theological rejection of images is self-described as intellectual history, general history, or history of civilization, not art history or theology (p. 9). Thus, one may take with a grain of salt small specific errors such as a claim t...
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