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Pages: 216
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Sacred Shock attempts to lay bare the inner workings of Byzantine art by looking closely at the marginal or subsidiary areas in works of art.
The Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy
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Pages: 301
Authors: Paroma Chatterjee
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Explores the development and diffusion of the vita image which emerged in Byzantium in the twelfth century and spread to Italy and beyond.
The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium
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Pages: 203
Authors: Eirini Panou
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The Cult of St Anna in Byzantium is the first undertaking in Byzantine research to study the phenomenon of St Anna’s cult from the sixth to the fifteenth cent
Byzantine Art and Diplomacy in an Age of Decline
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The Late Byzantine period (1261–1453) is marked by a paradoxical discrepancy between economic weakness and cultural strength. The apparent enigma can be resol
Byzantine Media Subjects
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Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images—icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places of worship, politics, and community. Gle