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Byzantine art and diplomacy in an age of decline
- Title
- Byzantine art and diplomacy in an age of decline / Cecily J. Hilsdale.
- Author
- Hilsdale, Cecily J., 1971-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xxi, 393 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
- Summary
- "The Late Byzantine period (1261-1453) is marked by a paradoxical discrepancy between economic weakness and cultural strength. The apparent enigma can be resolved by recognizing that later Byzantine diplomatic strategies, despite or because of diminishing political advantage, relied on an increasingly desirable cultural and artistic heritage. This book reassesses the role of the visual arts in this era by examining the imperial image and the gift as reconceived in the final two centuries of the Byzantine Empire. In particular it traces a series of luxury objects created specifically for diplomatic exchange with such courts as Genoa, Paris and Moscow alongside key examples of imperial imagery and ritual. By questioning how political decline refigured the visual culture of empire, Dr Hilsdale offers a more nuanced and dynamic account of medieval cultural exchange that considers the temporal dimensions of power and the changing fates of empires"--
- Subject
- Arts and diplomacy > Byzantine Empire
- Diplomatic gifts > Byzantine Empire
- HISTORY / Europe / General
- HISTORY / Europe / General / bisacsh
- Diplomatie
- Geschenk
- Kunstwerk
- Byzantine Empire > History > Palaeologi dynasty, 1259-1448
- Byzantine Empire > Foreign relations > Europe
- Europe > Foreign relations > Byzantine Empire
- Byzantinisches Reich
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-387) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFF 14-754
- ISBN
- 9781107033306 (hardback)
- 1107033306 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2013030432
- OCLC
- 854956972
- Author
- Hilsdale, Cecily J., 1971- author.
- Title
- Byzantine art and diplomacy in an age of decline / Cecily J. Hilsdale.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-387) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFF 14-754