Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy - presented by Dame Averil Cameron

 

Presented by Dame Averil Cameron

Warden of Keble College, Oxford until 2010 and previously taught at King's College London

The Icon of the Triumph of Orthdoxy was Object No. 66 in Neil MacGregor's History of the World last year, and is one of the greatest treasures of the British Museum. Painted in Constantinople around the beginning of the fifteenth century, the icon depicts the annual Festival of Orthodoxy celebrated on the first Sunday in Lent. This annual feast celebrated the overthrow of Iconoclasm in AD843, and the restoration of the holy icons to the life of the Orthodox Church. In this icon we see the icon of the Virgin Mary Hodegetria - believed to have been painted by St Luke - presented by the regent Empress Theodora and her son, the emperor Michael III. With this object, Professor Dame Averil Cameron opens up to us the politics and drama of the imperial Byzantine court, and the significance of AD 843 for our understanding of world Christianity today.

Dame Averil Cameron presented our seventh object, Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, on Thursday, 9th February 2012 in Deddington Parish Church.

 


An introduction from Dame Averil Cameron.


Audio only of "Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy" - presented by Dame Averil Cameron.

 

 

 

 

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