Book contents
- Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline
- Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Color plates
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: the imperial image as gift
- Part I Adventus: the emperor and the city
- Part II “Atoms of Epicurus”: the imperial image as gift in an age of decline
- 4 Rhetoric as diplomacy: imperial word, image, and presence
- 5 Wearing allegiances and the construction of a visualoikoumene
- Conclusion: the ends of empire
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Wearing allegiances and the construction of a visualoikoumene
from Part II - “Atoms of Epicurus”: the imperial image as gift in an age of decline
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2014
- Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline
- Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Color plates
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: the imperial image as gift
- Part I Adventus: the emperor and the city
- Part II “Atoms of Epicurus”: the imperial image as gift in an age of decline
- 4 Rhetoric as diplomacy: imperial word, image, and presence
- 5 Wearing allegiances and the construction of a visualoikoumene
- Conclusion: the ends of empire
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline , pp. 268 - 332Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014