The Emperor And The World
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The Emperor And The World
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Author : Alicia Walker
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-30
The Emperor And The World written by Alicia Walker and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-30 with Art categories.
Offers a new perspective on Byzantine imperial imagery, demonstrating the role foreign styles and iconography played in the visual articulation of imperial power.
The Emperor In The Roman World 31 Bc Ad 337
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Author : Fergus Millar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Emperor In The Roman World 31 Bc Ad 337 written by Fergus Millar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with History categories.
Emperor Of The World
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Author : Anne A. Latowsky
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-15
Emperor Of The World written by Anne A. Latowsky and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-15 with History categories.
Emperor of the World, traces the curious history of the story of the alliances forged by Charlemagne while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople, revealing how the memory of the Frankish Emperor was manipulated to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages. The legend incorporates apocalyptic themes such as the succession of world monarchies at the End of Days and the prophecy of the Last Roman Emperor. Charlemagne's apocryphal journey to the East increasingly resembled the eschatological final journey of the Last Emperor, who was expected to end his reign in Jerusalem after reuniting the Roman Empire prior to the Last Judgment. Latowsky finds that the writers who incorporated this legend did so to support, or in certain cases to criticize, the imperial pretentions of the regimes under which they wrote. Latowsky removes Charlemagne's encounters with the East from their long-presumed Crusading context and shows how a story that began as a rhetorical commonplace of imperial praise evolved over the centuries as an expression of Christian Roman universalism.
In The Shadow Of The Gods
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Author : Dominic Lieven
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2022-05-05
In The Shadow Of The Gods written by Dominic Lieven and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-05 with History categories.
From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperors For millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their authority. They operated beyond normal human constraint and indeed often claimed a superhuman or divine authority. In practice they ran the gamut from being some of the most remarkable men who ever lived, to being some of the worst and least remarkable. Dominic Lieven's marvellous new book, In the Shadow of the Gods, is the first to grapple seriously with this extraordinary phenomenon. Across the world peoples, willingly or unwillingly, fell into orbit around figures who reshaped or destroyed entire societies, imposed religions and invaded rivals. Lieven describes the anatomy of imperial monarchy and the principles by which it functioned. He compares the great emperors of antiquity, the caliphs and the warrior-emperors of the steppe before he turns to the Habsburg, Russian, Ottoman, Mughal and Chinese emperors, packing the book with extraordinary stories, astute observations and a sense of both delight and horror at these individuals' antics. The entire breadth of extreme human behaviour is here - from warlords to patrons of the arts, from political genius to feeble incapacity and pathological violence. As one of the great experts both on empires and on Russian history, Lieven is brilliantly qualified to write a book that brings to life a system of rule that dominated most of human history, as well as some of history's grandest and most dismaying figures.
Emperor In The Roman World
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Author : Fergus Millar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Emperor In The Roman World written by Fergus Millar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.
The Emperor And The World
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Author : Alicia Walker
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-30
The Emperor And The World written by Alicia Walker and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-30 with Art categories.
Byzantine imperial imagery is commonly perceived as a static system. In contrast to this common portrayal, this book draws attention to its openness and responsiveness to other artistic traditions. Through a close examination of significant objects and monuments created over a 350-year period, from the ninth to the thirteenth century, Alicia Walker shows how the visual articulation of Byzantine imperial power not only maintained a visual vocabulary inherited from Greco-Roman antiquity and the Judeo-Christian tradition, but also innovated on these artistic precedents by incorporating styles and forms from contemporary foreign cultures, specifically the Sasanian, Chinese and Islamic worlds. In addition to art and architecture, this book explores historical accounts and literary works as well as records of ceremonial practices, thereby demonstrating how texts, ritual and images operated as integrated agents of imperial power. Walker offers new ways to think about cross-cultural interaction in the Middle Ages and explores the diverse ways in which imperial images employed foreign elements in order to express particularly Byzantine meanings.
Emperor Of The World
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Author : Anne A. Latowsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-15
Emperor Of The World written by Anne A. Latowsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-15 with History categories.
Exploring how the historical memory of Charlemagne was used to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages.
The Emperor In The Byzantine World
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Author : Shaun Tougher
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-15
The Emperor In The Byzantine World written by Shaun Tougher and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with History categories.
The subject of the emperor in the Byzantine world may seem likely to be a well-studied topic but there is no book devoted to the emperor in general covering the span of the Byzantine empire. Of course there are studies on individual emperors, dynasties and aspects of the imperial office/role, but there remains no equivalent to Fergus Millar’s The Emperor in the Roman World (from which the proposed volume takes inspiration for its title and scope). The oddity of a lack of a general study of the Byzantine emperor is compounded by the fact that a series of books devoted to Byzantine empresses was published in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Thus it is appropriate to turn the spotlight on the emperor. Themes covered by the contributions include: questions of dynasty and imperial families; the imperial court and the emperor’s men; imperial duties and the emperor as ruler; imperial literature (the emperor as subject and author); and the material emperor, including imperial images and spaces. The volume fills a need in the field and the market, and also brings new and cutting-edge approaches to the study of the Byzantine emperor. Although the volume cannot hope to be a comprehensive treatment of the emperor in the Byzantine world it aims to cover a broad chronological and thematic span and to play a vital part in setting the agenda for future work. The subject of the Byzantine emperor has also an obvious relevance for historians working on rulership in other cultures and periods.
Emperor Of The Earth
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Author : Czeslaw Milosz
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1977
Emperor Of The Earth written by Czeslaw Milosz and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Literary Collections categories.
This stimulating collection of essays, mostly concerned with subjects taken from Slavic literatures, is at once scholarly and reflective. The volume opens with a true story, "Brognart," which is a confession of the author's remorse based on conflict with French intellectuals. "Science Fiction and the Coming of the Antichrist" concerns Vladimir Solovyov. "Krasinski's Retreat" is another return to the author's student readings, which attempts to determine how a Polish romantic poet could write in 1833 a drama on the approaching world revolution. "Joseph Conrad's Father" sketches the biography of a poet and revolutionary and also throws some light upon the fate of the hero of the last chapter.
The Hands Of The Emperor
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Author : Victoria Goddard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-09-22
The Hands Of The Emperor written by Victoria Goddard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-22 with categories.
A middle-class tribesman from a proverbially remote province of the Empire, Cliopher Mdang has persisted against all odds to end up as unofficial head of the world's government. He is perhaps a year or two off a very well-deserved retirement. It is not quite the ideal moment to start transforming the world's society, but then again, when is?