Artistic Practice, Materiality, and Ideology in the Medieval East Roman Empire and Neighboring Eastern Polities

This anthology foregrounds the complex interplay of artistic production, material conditions, and political conjuncture in East Roman Empire and the wider Orthodox Commonwealth. While art-historical research has long been shaped by the "e;visual"e; and "e;spatial"e; turns, this volume insists that a decisive advance lies in engaging the "e;material turn"e; through a perspective that grounds artwor...