Ur i slobodan (3 risultati)

Softcover/Paperback. Condizione: Fine. By now a classic it presents in a single volume a coherent overall view of the history and the changing character of Early Christian and Byzantine architecture from Rome and Milan to North Africa from Constantinople to Greece and the Balkans and from Egypt and Jerusalem to the villages and monasteries of Syria Asia Minor Armenia and Mesopotamia. | Pages: 566.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Cloth, dj. Slight shelf-wear to dj., else bright and clean. The centuries-long economic and military decline of the Byzantine Empire, which culminated in its political disappearance as a state in 1459, was, paradoxically, accompanied by high levels of cultural achievement. Aimed at broadening our understanding of the final phase of the empire, this collection explores how Byzantine ideological, spiritual, and artistic traditions transcended the economic and political realities of the time. The papers, delivered at an interdisciplinary colloquium held in May 1989 at Princeton University, deal with hagiographic, monastic, literary, architectural, and artistic questions, as well as the general cultural and social issues, of this fascinating period. Along with the editors, the contributors are Smiljka Gabelic, Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Angela Hero, Robert Ousterhout, Marcus Rautman, Steven Reinert, Alice Mary Talbot, Speros Vryonis, and John J. Yiannias. . …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. xii, 913 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. A magisterial survey of a part of the world that often is overlooked in the history or architecture.