Representations of Early Byzantine Empresses: Image and Empire

ISBN-13: 9781349635368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 282 str.

Anne L. McClanan; A. McClanan

Opis

This book reconsiders a wide array of images of Byzantine empresses on media as diverse as bronze coins and gold mosaic from the fifth through to the seventh centuries A.D.

Spis treści

Introduction The Empress Ariadne and the Politics of Transition Early Byzantine Steelyard Weights: Potency and Diffusion of the Imperial Image Looking at Her: Prokopios Rhetor and the Representation of Empress Theodora The Visual Representation of Empress Theodora The Empress Sophia: Authority and Conflict Conclusion

O autorze

ANNE L. MCCLANAN is Assistant Professor of art history at Portland State University, Oregon, USA. She is the co-editor of Personal Objects, Social Subjects: The Material Culture of Sex, Procreation, and Marriage in Pre-Modern Europe, forthcoming from Palgrave.