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Author Hilsdale, Cecily J., 1971- author.

Title Byzantine art and diplomacy in an age of decline / Cecily J. Hilsdale
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 393 pages)
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Arts and diplomacy -- Byzantine Empire
Diplomatic gifts -- Byzantine Empire
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
ART -- History -- General.
Palaeologi Dynasty (Byzantine Empire)
Arts and diplomacy
Diplomatic gifts
Diplomatic relations
Diplomatie
Geschenk
Kunstwerk
SUBJECT Byzantine Empire -- History -- Palaeologi dynasty, 1259-1448. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018508
Byzantine Empire -- Foreign relations -- Europe
Europe -- Foreign relations -- Byzantine Empire
Subject Byzantine Empire
Europe
Byzantinisches Reich
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781107731967
1107731968
9781139519588
1139519581
9781107728455
1107728452