Royal Imagery in Medieval GeorgiaPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... promote particular notions of power . This is not , there- fore , a positivist attempt to reconstruct the " real " nature of each ruler behind the propagandist façade of his or her image . My approach is to give the surviving visual ...
... promote particular notions of power . This is not , there- fore , a positivist attempt to reconstruct the " real " nature of each ruler behind the propagandist façade of his or her image . My approach is to give the surviving visual ...
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... promote particular images of the people they describe , and have sought to impose patterns of interpretation that will fix those images for posterity . Traditionally , most emphasis has been placed on the models of power presented in ...
... promote particular images of the people they describe , and have sought to impose patterns of interpretation that will fix those images for posterity . Traditionally , most emphasis has been placed on the models of power presented in ...
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... promotion of the queen became very important as others sought to undermine her position . Royal imagery gained a new urgency as the best means to demonstrate her right to rule and her ability so to do . The aim of this book , then , is ...
... promotion of the queen became very important as others sought to undermine her position . Royal imagery gained a new urgency as the best means to demonstrate her right to rule and her ability so to do . The aim of this book , then , is ...
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Page xix - N. Thierry, Le souverain dans les programmes d'églises en Cappadoce et en Géorgie du X' au XIII' siècle, dans Revue des études géorgiennes et caucasiennes, 4, 1988, p.