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020			_a9781139519588 (ebook)
020			_z9781107033306 (hardback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aDF632 _b.H55 2014
082	0	0	_a709.495/0902 _223
100	1		_aHilsdale, Cecily J., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aByzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline / _cCecily J. Hilsdale.
246	3		_aByzantine Art & Diplomacy in an Age of Decline
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource (412 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThe 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.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107033306
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139519588
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37071 _d37071