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Michael Angold – Byzantium: the Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages - Phoenix Press, London, 2002, 1ª edição paperback (1ª edição absoluta, hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2001), 186 páginas

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From Library Journal

Angold (Byzantine history, Univ. of Edinburgh; The Byzantine Empire 1025 to 1202) tells the story of the transition of the Mediterranean world from the unity of the late Roman Empire to the emergence of three unique civilizations.

Of these, Angold believes that Byzantium played a pivotal role by being the entity by and against which the emerging civilizations of the Catholic West and Islam defined themselves.

By tracing the development and interplay of Byzantine art, theology, and politics, Angold shows how they came to influence policies made in the Catholic West and Islam.

When, for instance, Islam conquered Syria and Egypt, it encountered the figurative religious art of Byzantium. This spurred Islam to develop a new artistic tradition based on textual representation, a development that would lead to Islam's accusation that the Byzantines were idol worshippers.

The Byzantine state's reaction was the iconoclastic movement, which sought to remove all figurative religious representations, other than the cross, from all churches.

Byzantium's request that the papacy also participate in the iconoclastic movement was rejected. Through such interactions, Byzantium caused the Catholic West and Islam to define themselves in new ways.

Ably argued, this rich and thoughtful work is recommended for academic and larger public libraries