Eastern Christian Books

As I have noted on here over the years, and in public lectures about iconoclasm and iconographic history, all artwork is political, and some...

As noted earlier in the week, interest in all aspects of Byzantine art and its history remains high. Late next month another scholarly work ...

The older I get the more I realize that too much Christian hagiography, and more generally treatment of pre-Christian history, in whatever c...

The Christian East has abounded in images, and celebrates them annually on more than one occasion. But what is an icon exactly? What does it...

Set for release later this month--and presumably in time to order for all the Byzantinists, artists, historians, and architects on your Chri...

If you read my Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy , you will know that I have a special affection for the Armenian Church, whose structures are ...

A quarter-century ago now (!), I had what was easily one of the most intellectually engaging courses of my freshman and indeed entire underg...

The well-respected art historian Robin Jensen has a book coming out in April looking at that most central and recognizable of Christian symb...

Interest in all things Byzantine remains constantly high, not least when it concerns Byzantine art, subject of two recently released books, ...

Those of us who listen to the rhetoric emanating out of ISIS will have heard their ritualistic invocation of "the Crusaders" and b...