Byzantine art and diplomacy in an age of decline

Byzantine art and diplomacy in an age of decline

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal : Hilsdale Cecily J. (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Byzantine art and diplomacy in an age of decline / Cecily J. Hilsdale
Publié : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , DL 2014, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXI-393 p.-[8] p. de pl. en coul.)
Sujets :
Cadeaux diplomatiques > Empire byzantin
Empire byzantin > Relations extérieures > Europe
Europe > Relations extérieures > Empire byzantin
Empire byzantin > 1261-1453 (Dynastie des Paléologue)
  • 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