Author : Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher :
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Art, Byzantine
ISBN :
Author : Andrew M. Burnett
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Coinage
ISBN :
Author : Cecily J. Hilsdale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107033306
Questions how political decline refigures the visual culture of empire by examining the imperial image and the gift in later Byzantium (1261-1453). Provides a more nuanced account of medieval artistic cultural exchange that considers the temporal dimensions of power and the changing fates of empires.
Author : Sofia Zoitou
Publisher : Mediterranean Art Histories
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004436855
"In Staging Holiness. The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) Sofia Zoitou offers a study of the history of relic collections, devotional rituals and sites invested with special meaning in Rhodes, during a time when the island became one of the most frequented ports of call for ships carrying pilgrims from Venice to the Holy Land. Scrutinizing late medieval travel reports by pilgrims from all over Europe along with extant historical, archaeological, visual and material evidence, Sofia Zoitou traces the various forms of the Rhodian cultic sites' evolution and perception, ultimately considered as an overall artistic strategy for the staging of the sacred"--
Author : Moses I. Finley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520024366
"The Ancient Economy holds pride of place among the handful of genuinely influential works of ancient history. This is Finley at the height of his remarkable powers and in his finest role as historical iconoclast and intellectual provocateur. It should be required reading for every student of pre-modern modes of production, exchange, and consumption."--Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens
Author : Peter G. Van Alfen
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Offered to John H Kroll upon his retirement from the University of Texas at Austin, this volume features essays on Greek coinage, exchange, and polis economies from the Archaic to Hellenistic periods. Included in the collection are studies that explore aspects of Homeric and Archaic exchange, the law of sale, and cavalry costs. Other studies examine the social, economic and historical contexts of coinages from Abdera, Athens, "Lete," Lydia, Mylasa, and Side, and present new interpretative approaches to "cooperative" coinage and those from archaeological sites.
Author : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892360186
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 6/7 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, paintings, sculpture, and works of art. This volume includes an editorial statement by the journal’s editors: Burton B. Fredericksen, curator of Paintings, Jiří Frel, curator of Antiquities, and Gillian Wilson, curator of Decorative Arts. Conservation problems are discussed along with articles written by K. Christiansen, B. B. Fredericksen, S. Holo, G. Wilson, B. L. Shifman, M. Shapiro, J. Frel, D. M. Brinkerhoff, C. C. Vermeule, G. Koch, S. Downey, l. Kilian-Dirlmeier, C. Cardon, F. Brommer, M. A. Del Chiaro, P. Visonà, J. Cody, R. Mellor, D. L. Thompson, E. Langlotz, P. Zazoff, S. Knudsen Morgan, M. Jentoft-Nilsen, and A. Manzoni.
Author : Alfred Raymond Bellinger
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Coinage
ISBN :
Author : Cécile Morrisson
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 9780884023777
How are markets in antiquity to be characterized? As comparable to modern free markets? As controlled by the State? Or in completely different terms, as free but regulated? Here, scholars address these and related questions by reexamining and reinterpreting records from Byzantium and its hinterland for local, regional, and interregional trade.
Author : Edward M. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1107035880
Markets, Households and City-States in the Ancient Greek Economy brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy. The essays investigate the role of market-exchange in the economy of the ancient Greek world in the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
