The Emperor and the World: Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial Power, Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries C.E. Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Emperor and the World: Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial Power, Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries C.E. Book

In this book, Alicia Walker shows how the visual articulation of middle Byzantine imperial power not only maintained an artistic vocabulary inherited from Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian traditions, but also innovated on these precedents by strategically incorporating styles and forms from contemporary foreign cultures, specifically the Sasanian, Chinese, and Islamic worlds.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Offers a new perspective on Byzantine imperial imagery, demonstrating the role foreign styles and iconography played in the visual articulation of imperial power. Byzantine imperial imagery is commonly perceived as a static system. In contrast to...

  • 1107004772
  • 9781107004771
  • Alicia Walker
  • 30 April 2012
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 288
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