Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto edition bound in blue cloth, lettered gilt to the spine. Signed by Edward W. Forbes to the front free endpaper. Dr. Forbes was an author, art historian and director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. Edited by The Committee on Publications The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Trustees for Harvard University Washington, District of Columbia. This volume contains four essays: Gerhart B. Ladner - The Concept of the Image in the Greek Fathers and the Byzantine Iconoclastic Controversy; Paul J. Alexander - The Iconoclastic Council of St. Sophia (815) and Its Definition (Horos); Francis Dvornik - The Patriarch Photius and Iconoclasm; Deno John Geanakoplos - Greco-Latin Relations on the Eve of the Byzantine Restoration: The Battle of Pelagonia - 1259. A clean, bright and solid copy. Scarce.

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