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Byzantine imperial imagery is commonly perceived as a static
system. In contrast to this common portrayal, this book draws
attention to its openness and responsiveness to other artistic
traditions. Through a close examination of significant objects and
monuments created over a 350-year period, from the ninth to the
thirteenth century, Alicia Walker shows how the visual articulation
of Byzantine imperial power not only maintained a visual vocabulary
inherited from Greco-Roman antiquity and the Judeo-Christian
tradition, but also innovated on these artistic precedents by
incorporating styles and forms from contemporary foreign cultures,
specifically the Sasanian, Chinese, and Islamic worlds. In addition
to art and architecture, this book explores historical accounts and
literary works as well as records of ceremonial practices, thereby
demonstrating how texts, ritual, and images operated as integrated
agents of imperial power. Walker offers new ways to think about
cross-cultural interaction in the Middle Ages and explores the
diverse ways in which imperial images employed foreign elements in
order to express particularly Byzantine meanings.
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