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Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204

By Henry Maguire

Book information

Publisher
Dumbarton Oaks
Year
1997
ISBN
0884022420, 9780884022428
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22126417 bytes)
Pages
372\349
Topic
History
DPI
150
Orientation
no
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2017-05-09 20:20:54
history; byzantine; empire; court; culture; 829; 1

Description

The imperial court in Constantinople has been central to the outsider's vision of Byzantium. However, in spite of its fame in literature and scholarship, there have been few attempts to analyze the Byzantine court in its entirety as a phenomenon. The studies in this volume aim to provide a unified composition by presenting Byzantine courtly life in all its interconnected facets. One important theme that unites these studies is the attention paid to describing the effects of a change in the social makeup of the court during this period and the reflection of these changes in art and architecture. These changes in social composition, mentality, and material culture of the court demonstrate that, as in so many other aspects of Byzantine civilization, the image of permanence and immutability projected by the forms of palace life was more apparent than real. As this new work shows, behind the golden facade of ceremony, rhetoric, and art, there was constant development and renewal.

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