Descrição
600 pp.; ilustrações (principalmente a cores); 31 cm
Covering the art of the Middle Byzantine period (843-1261 AD), this book demonstrates its wide diversity and influence through 17 scholarly essays. These are accompanied by descriptions and colour reproductions of over 400 objects, as well as pictures of architectural sites all over Eastern Europe.
Byzantine society and civilization / Speros P. Vryonis, Jr
Religious organization and church architecture / Thomas F. Mathews
Manuscripts / Jeffrey C. Anderson
Popular imagery / Annemarie Weyl Carr
Images of the court / Henry Maguire
Secular architecture / Robert G. Ousterhout
Luxury objects / Ioli Kalavrezou
Ceramic arts of everyday life / Eunice Dauterman Maguire
Christian neighbors / Helen C. Evans
Kievan Rus’ / Olenka Z. Pevny
The Bulgarians / Joseph D. Alchermes
The Georgians / S. Peter Cowe
The Armenians / Helen C. Evans
Christians in the Islamic East / Thelma K. Thomas
Crusader art / Jaroslav Folda
Byzantium and the Islamic East / Priscilla Soucek
Byzantine art and the Latin West / William D. Wixom
