Chromatic Weapons: The Function of Colour in the Age of Iconoclasm, c.726-867

色彩武器：反传统时代色彩的功能，c.726-867

• 批准号: 2645904
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2645904
• 关键词: Chromatic; Weapons; Function; Colour; Age

I will produce a synthesised analysis of disparate, frequent, references to the concept of colour across a range of textsproduced by Eastern Christian communities between c.726-867. These texts, written as direct responses towards theperiod's episodic outbreaks of scepticism towards veneration of religious images, are in both Arabic and Greek, andcome both from Byzantium and from Orthodox communities living under Islam. The project has two parts, following theperiods of official 'iconoclasm' in the Byzantine Church: c.726-787, and c.810-867. I merge language analysis with vitalintellectual and theological contexts to suggest how, and why, notions of colour were inflected across time and space.Furthermore, by incorporating wider context, I examine how different factors, specific to the particular situations ofrespective authors, might have informed their strategies regarding colour. My sources range from the Syrian monasticJohn Damascene (d.c.750), the first author of specific literature to address such crises, to the Patriarch Photius; whose867 Homily 17 celebrated the first public icon inauguration since image-veneration was permanently restored asorthodoxy by the Byzantine Church. I also utilise the Acts of the 787 Council of Nicaea; the surviving fragments of the'iconoclastic' councils of 754 and 815; and writings by 8th-century theologians: the Byzantine Theodore Stoudite andPatriarch Nicephorus, and the Arabic-speaking Syrian Melkite Theodore Abu Qurrah.

我将对公元726-867年间东方基督教团体创作的一系列文本中不同的、频繁的、对颜色概念的引用进行综合分析。这些文本，作为对当时对宗教形象崇拜的怀疑主义的直接回应，用阿拉伯语和希腊语写成，来自拜占庭和生活在伊斯兰教下的东正教社区。该项目分为两部分，分别是公元726年至787年和公元810年至867年的拜占庭教堂官方“偶像破坏”时期。我将语言分析与重要的智力和神学背景结合起来，以表明颜色的概念是如何以及为什么在时间和空间中发生变化的。此外，通过结合更广泛的背景，我研究了不同的因素，具体到各自作者的特定情况，可能会影响他们关于颜色的策略。我的资料来源包括叙利亚修士约翰·大马士革（公元750年），他是解决这些危机的具体文献的第一个作者，到族长弗提乌斯；公元867年，他在讲道中庆祝了自拜占廷教会永久恢复对偶像的崇拜以来的第一次公开圣像就职典礼。我也引用了787年尼西亚大公会议的法令；残存的754年和815年“反传统”会议的残片；以及8世纪神学家的著作：拜占庭的西奥多·斯图德和族长尼塞弗鲁斯，以及说阿拉伯语的叙利亚人梅尔凯特·西奥多·阿布·可拉。