Godina izdanja: 1997
ISBN: 9780884022428
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Istorija umetnosti
Autor: Strani

Dumbarton Oaks 1997 264 strane : ilustrovano

očuvanost 5-

Kulturno nasleđe

Introduction
List of Abbreviations
I Imperial Spaces
The Emperor in His Church: Imperial Ritual in the Church of St. Sophia
George P. Majeska
Gardens of the Palaces
A. R. Littlewood
II Imperial Costumes and Cult Objects
Middle Byzantine Court Costume
Elisabeth Piltz
Helping Hands for the Empire: Imperial Ceremonies and the Cult of Relics at the Byzantine Court
Ioli Kalavrezou
Court Culture and Cult Icons in Middle Byzantine Constantinople
Annemarie Weyl Carr
III Interchanges with Foreign Courts
Byzantine Court Culture from the Point of View of Norman Sicily: The Case of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo
William Tronzo
The Shared Culture of Objects
Oleg Grabar
IV
Court Intellectuals and Rhetoric
Imperial Panegyric: Rhetoric and Reality
George T. Dennis
In Search of the Byzantine Courtier: Leo Choirosphaktes and Constantine Manasses
Paul Magdalino
V Social Composition of the Byzantine Court
The Social World of the Byzantine Court
Alexander P. Kazhdant and Michael McCormick
Title and Income at the Byzantine Court
Nicolas Oikonomides
VI Art of the Byzantine Court
Daedalus and the Nightingale: Art and Technology in the Myth of the Byzantine Court
James Trilling
Présence et figures du souverain à Sainte-Sophie de Constantinople
et à l`église de la Sainte-Croix d`Aghtamar
Catherine Jolivet-Lévy
The Heavenly Court
Henry Maguire
Index


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.