Representations of Early Byzantine Empresses: Image and Empire

by Anne L. McClanan

Book Overview

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 seventh centuries A.D. The representations have often been viewed in terms of individual personas, but strong typological currents frame their medieval context. Empress Theodora, the target of political pornography, has consumed the bulk of past interest, but even her representations fit these patterns. Methodological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312294921
• ISBN13: 9780312294922
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.6"