The Emperor and the World
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The Emperor and the World

Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial Power, Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries C.E.

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The Emperor and the World

Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial Power, Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries C.E.

About this book

Byzantine imperial imagery is commonly perceived as a static system. In contrast to this common portrayal, this book draws attention to its openness and responsiveness to other artistic traditions. Through a close examination of significant objects and monuments created over a 350-year period, from the ninth to the thirteenth century, Alicia Walker shows how the visual articulation of Byzantine imperial power not only maintained a visual vocabulary inherited from Greco-Roman antiquity and the Judeo-Christian tradition, but also innovated on these artistic precedents by incorporating styles and forms from contemporary foreign cultures, specifically the Sasanian, Chinese and Islamic worlds. In addition to art and architecture, this book explores historical accounts and literary works as well as records of ceremonial practices, thereby demonstrating how texts, ritual and images operated as integrated agents of imperial power. Walker offers new ways to think about cross-cultural interaction in the Middle Ages and explores the diverse ways in which imperial images employed foreign elements in order to express particularly Byzantine meanings.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781107004771
eBook ISBN
9781316022702
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Ancient Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. THE EMPEROR AND THE WORLD
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. ILLUSTRATIONS
  8. PREFACE
  9. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  10. ABBREVIATIONS
  11. AUTHOR'S NOTE
  12. INTRODUCTION: Imaging Emperor and Empire in the Middle Byzantine Era
  13. CHAPTER ONE EMULATION: slamic imports in the iconoclast Era – Power, Prestige, and the Imperial Image
  14. CHAPTER TWO APPROPRIATION: Stylistic Juxtaposition and the Expression of Power
  15. CHAPTER THREE PARITY: Crafting a Byzantine-Iislamic Community of Kings
  16. CHAPTER FOUR EXPROPRIATION: Rhetorical Images of the Emperor and the articulation of Difference
  17. CHAPTER FIVE INCOMPARABILITY: The Aesthetics of Imperial Authority
  18. CONCLUSION
  19. APPENDIX
  20. NOTES
  21. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  22. INDEX