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Item Number: 112457
Title: The Emperor and the World : Exotic Elements in the Imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial Power
Author: Walker, Alicia
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781107004771
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 25cm., hardcover, 400pp., 71 b&w illus. Contents: 1. Emulation: Islamic imports in the iconoclastic era: power, prestige, and the imperial image ; 2. Appropriation: stylistic juxtaposition and the articulation of power: the Troyes Casket ; 3. Parity: a Byzantine-Islamic community of kings: diplomatic gifts in The Book of Gifts and Rarities ; 4. Expropriation: rhetorical images of the emperor and the articulation of difference: the Darmstadt Casket ; 5. Incomparability: the Mouchroutas Hall and the aesthetics of imperial power.

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