Meanings and functions of the ruler's image in the Mediterranean world (11th-15th centuries) / Michele Bacci; Manuela Studer-Karlen; Mirko Vagnoni.

9789004511583 (electronic bk.)
900451158X (electronic bk.)
9789004511491
9004511490

Leiden : Brill, 2022.

©2022

English

1 online resource (XX, 608 pages) : illustrations

ND1307

(OCoLC)1299243758

The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public mise-en-scene of the rulers' bodies. Its emphasis is on the ways in which medieval monarchs in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a variety of rituals, object-types, and media. Also available in Open Access, published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public mise-en-scene of the rulers' bodies. Its emphasis is on the ways in which medieval monarchs in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a variety of rituals, object-types, and media. Also available in Open Access, published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Open access 20220131

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Medieval Mediterranean ; 130.

Print version: Meanings and functions of the royal portrait in the Mediterranean world (11th-15th centuries). Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV 2022

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