Meanings and functions of the ruler's image in the Mediterranean world (11th-15th centuries)
The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public mise-en-scene of the rulers...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden
Brill
2022©2022, 2022
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| Series: | Medieval Mediterranean
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public mise-en-scene of the rulers' bodies. Its emphasis is on the ways in which medieval monarchs in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a variety of rituals, object-types, and media. Also available in Open Access, published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation |
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| Physical Description: | XX, 608 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9004511490 9789004511491 |