ABSTRACT
Relations between Byzantium and its neighbours are the focus of this volume. The papers address questions of cultural exchange, with special attention to art historical relations as shown by technical, iconographic and diplomatic exchanges. While addressed to specialists, both their approach and the language make these papers accessible to students at all levels.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter II
Silver across the Euphrates
Forms of Exchange between Sasanian Persia and the Late Roman Empire
chapter III
Constantinople and Córdoba
Cultural Exchange and Cultural Difference in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
chapter VIII
Everywhere and Nowhere
The Invisible Muslim and Christian Self-Fashioning in the Culture of Outremer
chapter IX
The Emperor's old clothes.
Actual and virtual vesting and the transmission of power in Byzantium and Islam
chapter X
The Parallel Universes of Arab and Byzantine Art
(with Special Reference to the Fatimid Era)
chapter XII
Imagination and Documentation
Eagle Silks in Byzantium, the Latin West and ‘AbbÃsid Baghdad
