Byzantine art and diplomacy in an age of decline / Cecily J. Hilsdale
- Author
- Hilsdale, Cecily J., 1971-
- Published
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxi, 393 pages)
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- 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.
- 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(s)
- 1259-1448
- Arts and diplomacy—Byzantine Empire
- Diplomatic gifts—Byzantine Empire
- Arts et diplomatie—Empire byzantin
- Cadeaux diplomatiques—Empire byzantin
- HISTORY—Europe—General
- ART—History—General
- Palaeologi Dynasty (Byzantine Empire)
- Arts and diplomacy
- Diplomatic gifts
- Diplomatic relations
- Diplomatie
- Geschenk
- Kunstwerk
- Byzantine Empire—History—Palaeologi dynasty, 1259-1448
- Byzantine Empire—Foreign relations—Europe
- Europe—Foreign relations—Byzantine Empire
- Empire byzantin—Relations extérieures—Europe
- Europe—Relations extérieures—Empire byzantin
- Byzantine Empire
- Europe
- Byzantinisches Reich
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781107731967 (electronic bk.)
1107731968 (electronic bk.)
9781139519588 (electronic bk.)
1139519581 (electronic bk.)
9781107728455 (electronic bk.)
1107728452 (electronic bk.)
9781107033306
1107033306 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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