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    True Icons?

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    As leader and guide of the Western Church, the Roman papacy took a long time before deciding to embrace whole-heartedly the potentiality of the visual icon as a means to communicate to the world the presence and power of the one true God. The first twelve hundred years of Christianity in Europe were rich in sacred images; yet ecclesiastical authority hesitated before the possibility of authorising any single example as an authentic representation of divinity. Pope Gregory the Greatā€™s often ci..

    Review of periodical articles: Pre-1500

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    The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church

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    Siena, civil religion and the Sienese

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    Charters of St Bartholemew's Priory, Sudbury

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