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Women in Purple: Three Byzantine Empresses
Women in Purple Three Byzantine Empresses
Author: Judith Herrin
This is the story of three Byzantine empresses who between 780 and 856 restored the veneration of icons, thus saving the Byzantine Empire from a purely symbolic and abstract decorative art, and ensuring its influence for centuries to come. This exhilarating and fascinating account evokes the complex and deeply religious world of Constantinople ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780297643340
ISBN-10: 0297643347
Publication Date: 9/13/2001
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Book Type: Hardcover
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