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Author Hilsdale, Cecily J., 1971- author.

Title Byzantine art and diplomacy in an age of decline / Cecily J. Hilsdale.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 393 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
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.
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Subject Byzantine Empire -- History -- Palaeologi dynasty, 1259-1448.
Byzantine Empire -- Foreign relations -- Europe.
Byzantine Empire.
International relations.
Europe.
Europe -- Foreign relations -- Byzantine Empire.
Arts and diplomacy -- Byzantine Empire.
Arts and diplomacy.
Diplomatic gifts -- Byzantine Empire.
Diplomatic gifts.
Chronological Term 1259-1448
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Hilsdale, Cecily J., 1971- Byzantine art and diplomacy in an age of decline 9781107033306 (DLC) 2013030432 (OCoLC)854956972
ISBN 9781107731967 (electronic book)
1107731968 (electronic book)
9781139519588 (electronic book)
1139519581 (electronic book)
9781107728455 (electronic book)
1107728452 (electronic book)
9781107033306
1107033306
Standard No. 40023576960