The art of dining in medieval Byzantium

"Thousands of intact ceramic bowls and plates as well as fragments made in the medieval Byzantine empire survive to this day. Decorated with figural and non-figural imagery applied in a variety of techniques and adorned with colourful paints and glazes, the vessels can tell us much about those...

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1. Verfasser: Frentrop, Lara (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Book/Monograph Hochschulschrift
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2024
Schriftenreihe:Studies in Byzantine cultural history
DOI:10.4324/9781003016359
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Online-Zugang:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016359
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003016359
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Verfasserangaben:Lara Frentrop
Inhaltsangabe:
  • A taste for novelty
  • The theatre of dining : splendour and performance
  • Word, image and intellect : rhetoric and display at table
  • Bad taste
  • Manly men, heroic hunters
  • The display of triumph, or : how a plate can make you powerful.