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  • Byzantine Art

    by Robin Cormack ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings placed in domed churches and public buildings. This complete introduction to the whole period and range of Byzantine art combines ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Painting the Soul

    Icons, Death Masks and Shrouds

    by Robin Cormack ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    Icons are among the most elusive subjects in the history of art, but at the same time their study constitutes possibly its fastest expanding field, and with the opening-up of the former Soviet Union many new objects are being discovered, studied and exhibited. In this book, Robin Cormack considers the icon as an integral document of society and gives us new insights into the nature of Byzantine ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Through the Looking Glass: Byzantium through British Eyes

    Papers from the Twenty-Ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, King’s College, London, March 1995

    by Robin Cormack, Elizabeth Jeffreys ...
    Series series Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
    The papers in this volume derive from the 29th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. This was held for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies in the University of London in March 1995, in order to complement the British Museum exhibition 'Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture'. The objective of the symposium was to explore the ways in which British scholars, travellers, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Liturgy and Architecture

    From the Early Church to the Middle Ages

    by Allan Doig ...
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    In this book Allan Doig explores the interrelationship of liturgy and architecture from the Early Church to the close of the Middle Ages, taking into account social, economic, technical, theological and artistic factors. These are crucial to a proper understanding of ecclesiastical architecture of all periods, and together their study illuminates the study of liturgy. Buildings and their ... Read more

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  • Place and Space in the Medieval World

    Edited by Meg Boulton, Jane Hawkes, Heidi Stoner ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, presenting a scholarly introduction written by the editors alongside thematic case studies that address a wide range of visual and textual material. The chapters consider the extant visual and textual sources from the medieval period alongside contemporary ... Read more

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  • Mapping Medieval Geographies

    Edited by Keith D. Lilley ...
    Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways in which geographical knowledge, ideas and traditions were formed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Leading scholars reveal the connections between Islamic, Christian, Biblical and Classical geographical traditions from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book is divided into two parts: Part I focuses on the notion of geographical ... Read more

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  • Byzantine Art

    Byzantine art as the language of the divine

    by Charles Bayet ...
    For more than a millennium, from its creation in 330 CE until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine Empire was a cradle of artistic effervescence that is only beginning to be rediscovered. Endowed with the rich heritage of Roman, Eastern, and Christian cultures, Byzantine artists developed an architectural and pictorial tradition, marked by symbolism, whose influence extended far beyond the borders of ... Read more

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  • The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    How the World Became Modern

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    Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it ... Read more

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  • Authority in Byzantium

    Edited by Pamela Armstrong ...
    Series series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
    Authority is an important concept in Byzantine culture whose myriad modes of implementation helped maintain the existence of the Byzantine state across so many centuries, binding together people from different ethnic groups, in different spheres of life and activities. Even though its significance to understanding the Byzantine world is so central, it is nonetheless imperfectly understood. The ... Read more

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  • Secrets of the Vatican

    by Cyrus Shahrad ...
    Divided into themed sections, linked together with a chronology of the most important events in the life of the Vatican, Secrets of the Vatican includes:THE HISTORY OF THE VATICANThe rise of the Catholic church, from its inauspicious beginnings as a persecuted cult in Rome to its establishment as the world's largest organized religionHOUSES OF THE HOLYA look at the vast wealth of art, sculpture ... Read more

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