Description
The compelling story of a thirteenth-century Christian noblewoman ransomed to the family of Saladin, and made a ruler by the Mongols.
About the Author
Antony Eastmond is A. G. Leventis Professor of Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. He has published extensively on the world of eastern Christianity and its connections with the Islamic world around it, especially in Georgia and the Caucasus, and Trebizond. He has also published on Late Antique and Byzantine art, with a particular interest in ivories and the visual power of inscriptions. Notable among his works are Royal Imagery in Medieval Georgia (1998), Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium: Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond (2004), The Glory of Byzantium and Early Christendom (2013) and Viewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World (2015).
Reviews
'... the volume is superbly illustrated: much can and should be learnt about Tamta's world simply by examining the plates in the light of Eastmond's highly knowledgeable and thoroughly comprehensible commentary.' David Morgan, The Times Literary Supplement
Book Information
ISBN 9781316618066
Author Antony Eastmond
Format Paperback
Page Count 478
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 759g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 25mm