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Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present-

This book discusses the privileging and prohibition of religious images over two and a half millennia in the West.

Between the late seventh and the mid-ninth centuries, a debate about sacred images – conventionally addressed as ‘Byzantine iconoclasm’ – engaged monks,

Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present�

Examples from British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries show how portraits became a new mode of identity for the middle class. Traditionally, k