Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline

ISBN: 9781316631980 出版年：2014 页码：426 Cecily J Hilsdale Cambridge University Press

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.