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15 décembre 2022
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Stephan Bruhn & Marcus Meer, « Conference Report: The Politics of Iconoclasm in the Middle Ages, 1–2 September 2022 », German Historical Institute London Blog, ID : 10670/1.lk8l58
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Image-making ages always appear to be image-breaking ones as well, as Len Scales (Durham) stressed in his welcome and introduction, referring to current instances of overtly political attacks on images. As such, we would expect the Middle Ages, as a decidedly visual age, to be no different. Yet existing scholarship, Scales continued, suggests that image-breaking was alien to the medieval period. Perhaps because medieval images were so often religious in content and the Middle Ages are so ofte...