The first comparative, cross-cultural study of medieval illustrated histories that engages in a direct, confrontational dialogue with Byzantine historical memory.
The first comparative, cross-cultural study of medieval illustrated histories that engages in a direct, confrontational dialogue with Byzantine historical memory.
Elena N. Boeck is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at DePaul University, Chicago. Her research interests broadly encompass cross-cultural exchange, contestation of established cultural narratives and the function of appropriation in medieval court culture. Her previous publications have explored topics ranging from Byzantine art to Russian engravings in the eighteenth century to the nineteenth-century representation of Byzantium on the Parisian stage.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Mystery, history and materiality 2. Engaging Byzantium, enraging Byzantium: Sicily, Bulgaria and the contestation of Constantinopolitan pre-eminence 3. Narrative emplotments and patterns of prioritization: analyzing visual codes and structural modes 4. Amplification as dialogue: the link between design and patronage 5. Iconoclasm as narrative experiment: religion, politics and memory 6. A headstrong case for getting ahead: scrutinizing narratives of de-capitation 7. Constantinople: story spaces or storied Imperial places Afterword.
Introduction 1. Mystery, history and materiality 2. Engaging Byzantium, enraging Byzantium: Sicily, Bulgaria and the contestation of Constantinopolitan pre-eminence 3. Narrative emplotments and patterns of prioritization: analyzing visual codes and structural modes 4. Amplification as dialogue: the link between design and patronage 5. Iconoclasm as narrative experiment: religion, politics and memory 6. A headstrong case for getting ahead: scrutinizing narratives of de-capitation 7. Constantinople: story spaces or storied Imperial places Afterword.
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