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Byzantium in the Czech lands (4th-16th centuries) : historical and art historical perspectives
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"This book offers the first comprehensive study of Byzantine influence on the art and iconography of East Central Europe. Petr Balcárek focuses on the Byzantine cultural and religious legacy in the...
"This book offers the first comprehensive study of Byzantine influence on the art and iconography of East Central Europe. Petr Balcárek focuses on the Byzantine cultural and religious legacy in the Czech lands, thereby bringing to light rarely seen images and presenting fresh hypotheses based on newly-explored theological interpretations and historical evidence. Including a discussion of the Czech and Slovak historiography on Byzantine studies, the work analyses significant artistic and iconographical artefacts in light of the intricate historical and political relationships that shaped Byzantine presence in these territories, comparing them with similar objects from other areas of Byzantine influence in order to draw wide-reaching conclusions"--
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- Creator
- by Petr Balcárek
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
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- xxviii, 501 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789004185524, 9004185526, 9789004527799, 9789004527799
- OCLC
- on1345278813
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- List of maps -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1. From 324 AD up to the eleventh century -- Part 2. Second half of the 11th century up to the 16th century -- Epilogue: The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
- Chapter 1 The Period from 324 AD to Approximately 500 AD / Petr Balcárek -- Chapter 2 The Period Between 500-670 / Chapter 3 The Period from 670 AD to Approximately 800 AD / Chapter 4 The Great Moravian Period, Ninth Century / Chapter 5 The Post-Great Moravian Period -- from the Year 900 to Approximately 1050 AD / Chapter 6 Conclusion and Summary of the First Part / Chapter 7 Introduction: Periodisation / Chapter 8 From Mid-Eleventh Century to ca. 1204 / Chapter 9 Thirteenth Century / Chapter 10 The Fourteenth Century / Chapter 11 Epilogue: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries / Conclusion / Petr Balcárek
Subjects
- Czech Republic -- Antiquities, Byzantine.
- Art, Byzantine -- Influence.
- Art, Byzantine -- Czech Republic -- History.
- Byzantine Empire -- Civilization.
- Byzantine Empire -- History -- Sources.
- Byzantine Empire -- Historiography.
- Byzantine Empire -- Relations -- Czech Republic.
- Czech Republic -- Relations -- Byzantine Empire.