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  • Between the Pagan Past and Christian Present in Byzantine Visual Culture

    Statues in Constantinople, 4th-13th Centuries CE

    by Paroma Chatterjee ...
    Up to its pillage by the Crusaders in 1204, Constantinople teemed with magnificent statues of emperors, pagan gods, and mythical beasts. Yet the significance of this wealth of public sculpture has hardly been acknowledged beyond late antiquity. In this book, Paroma Chatterjee offers a new perspective on the topic, arguing that pagan statues were an integral part of Byzantine visual culture. ... Read more

    $91.09 USD

  • The Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy

    The Vita Image, Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries

    by Paroma Chatterjee ...
    This is the first book to explore the emergence and function of a novel pictorial format in the Middle Ages, the vita icon, which displayed the magnified portrait of a saint framed by scenes from his or her life. The vita icon was used for depicting the most popular figures in the Orthodox calendar and, in the Latin West, was deployed most vigorously in the service of Francis of Assisi. This book ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

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  • Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization

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  • Public Policy

    A New Introduction

    by Christoph Knill, Jale Tosun ...
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    A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research. Bringing together analysis of classic works alongside the most recent developments in the field, this book is guided by the following three crucial questions: What is public policy? ... Read more

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  • Social History of Art, Volume 1

    From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages

    by Arnold Hauser ...
    First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the frameworks in which visual art is produced.This new edition provides an excellent introduction to the ... Read more

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  • Byzantine Matters

    by Averil Cameron ...
    A renowned historian examines the neglected story of Byzantium and what it can teach us about Western history: a "feisty and provocative manifesto" ( Times Literary Supplement, UK).For many of us, Byzantium remains "byzantine"—obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of recent historians, prejudice still skews our understanding of the Byzantine civilization, often reducing it to a poor ... Read more

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  • Unrivalled Influence

    Women and Empire in Byzantium

    by Judith Herrin ...
    Unrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Written by one of the world's foremost historians of the Byzantine millennium, this landmark book evokes the complex and exotic world of Byzantium's women, from empresses and saints to uneducated rural widows. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, Judith Herrin ... Read more

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  • Women, Men and Eunuchs

    Gender in Byzantium

    Edited by Elizabeth James ...
    The collected papers in this volume present a unique introduction both to the history of women, of men and eunuchs, or the third sex, in Byzantium and to the various theoretical and methodological approaches through which the topic can be examined. The contributors use evidence from both texts and images to give a wide-ranging picture of the place of women and Byzantine society and the perceptions ... Read more

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    Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement of physical books by digital media, with accompanying twenty first-century experiences of paranoia and literary apocalypse. It ... Read more

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  • Theodora

    Empress of Byzantium

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    An Italian historian's prize-winning biography of the sixth-century Byzantine empress.Theodora of Byzantium rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most powerful women of the ancient world. As the wife of Emperor Justinian, she was more than a mere figurehead, acting as Justinian's partner in both politics and life.Though she was ruthlessly criticized by her contemporaries, historian and ... Read more

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