Cecily J. Hilsdale

Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book questions how political decline refigures the visual culture of empire, examining the imperial image and the gift in later Byzantium.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 909g
• ISBN-13: 9781107033306
• ISBN-10: 1107033306
• Artikelnr.: 39632133

Autorenporträt

Cecily J. Hilsdale is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Montréal. Her research concerns cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean, in particular the circulation of Byzantine luxury objects as diplomatic gifts as well as the related dissemination of eastern styles, techniques, and iconographies and ideologies of imperium.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the Imperial image as gift; Part I. Adventus: the Emperor and
the City: 1. The imperial image and the end of exile; 2. Imperial
thanksgiving: the commemoration of the Byzantine restoration of
Constantinople; 3. Imperial instrumentality: the serially struck
Palaiologan image; Part II. 'Atoms of Epicurus': the Imperial Image as a
Gift in an Age of Decline: 4. Rhetoric as diplomacy: imperial word, image
and presence; 5. Wearing allegiances and the construction of a visual
oikoumene; Conclusion: the ends of empire.