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Book Number
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000322414
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ISBN
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 9780367410674 (hardback)
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9781032254173 (paperback)
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9780367814519 (ebook)
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Main Entry
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Fundić, Leonela,. author.
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Title
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Art, power, and patronage in the Principality of Epirus, 1204-1318 / Leonela Fundić.
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Imprint
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Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2022.
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Descr.
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xiii, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Series
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( Routledge research in Byzantine studies)
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Bibliogr.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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Artistic production and patronage in Epirus during the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth centuries -- Art, the memory of Constantinople, and the formation of the Epirote political identity after 1204 -- Catastrophe and the revival of Epirus : art and political ideology after the battle at Klokotnitsa in 1230 -- Epirus between the Palaiologoi and the Angevins during the reign of Nikephoros Komnenos Doukas (1267/8-1297) -- Art and patronage in the Principality of Epirus after 1296.
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Abstract
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"The Principality of Epirus was a medieval Greek state established in the western part of the Balkans after the fall of Constantinople to the forces of the Fourth Crusade in 1204. The Epirote rulers from the Komnenos-Doukas family claimed to be legitimate successors to the Byzantine imperial throne and, with the support of the high clergy and the aristocracy within their domain, carefully maintained their Byzantine identity under the conditions of exile. This book explores a corpus of Epirote architecture, frescoes, sculpture, and inscriptions from the early thirteenth to the early fourteenth century within a comparative and interdisciplinary framework, focusing on the nexus of art, patronage, and political ideology. Through an examination of a vast array of visual and textual sources, many of them understudied or hitherto unpublished, the book uncovers how the Epirote elite mobilised art and material culture to address the issues of succession and legitimacy, construct memory, reclaim Constantinople, and mediate encounters and exchanges with the Latin West. In doing so, this study offers a new perspective on Byzantine political and cultural history in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject - Lib.Cong.
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Art, Byzantine -- Political aspects -- Epirus (Greece and Albania)
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Art patronage -- Epirus (Greece and Albania) -- History -- To 1500.
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Epirus (Greece and Albania) -- History -- Despotate, 1204-1318.
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Series AE-Uni.Title
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Routledge research in Byzantine studies
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Holdings
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Gennadius Library
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