The Velestino Hoard: Casting Light on the Byzantine 'Dark Ages'

by Florin Curta and Bartomiej Szymon Szmoniewski

This book examines the remarkable Velestino hoard, found in Thessaly in the 1920s, and analyses the light that this collection of artifacts sheds on a poorly studied period of Byzantine history, and on largely neglected aspects of Byzantine civilization. Many collections of Byzantine gold- and silverware, such as Vrap and Seuso, have been surrounded by controversy. None, however, has been under more suspicion than the Velestino hoard, particularly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030048454
• ISBN13: 9783030048457
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"