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This book is the first of its kind to examine the development of royal imagery in Georgia between the ninth and thir- teenth centuries . Positioned between the Christian and Islamic worlds , Georgia provides an excellent case study for ...
This book is the first of its kind to examine the development of royal imagery in Georgia between the ninth and thir- teenth centuries . Positioned between the Christian and Islamic worlds , Georgia provides an excellent case study for ...
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or of Queen Tamar ( 1184-1213 ) is supported by the magnificence or quantity of their images and the buildings that ... This is because each royal image had to be adapted to its own immediate circum- stances , rather than fit into a ...
or of Queen Tamar ( 1184-1213 ) is supported by the magnificence or quantity of their images and the buildings that ... This is because each royal image had to be adapted to its own immediate circum- stances , rather than fit into a ...
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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 to reintegrate visual material into history , and to ex- ploit its evidence .
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 to reintegrate visual material into history , and to ex- ploit its evidence .
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The advantage of studying royal imagery in Georgia lies not only in the quantity and quality of the available material , but also in the unique cultural and political posi- tion of the country . It lies on many borders : on the physical ...
The advantage of studying royal imagery in Georgia lies not only in the quantity and quality of the available material , but also in the unique cultural and political posi- tion of the country . It lies on many borders : on the physical ...
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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.
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| Title | Royal Imagery in Medieval Georgia |
| Author | Antony Eastmond |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Penn State Press, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0271043911, 9780271043913 |
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