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  • MOSAICS, EMPRESSES AND OTHER THINGS IN BYZANTIUM
    LIZ JAMES
    This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James’s interests. The first section deals with light and colour and mosaics: four articles considering light and colour in mosaics and the making of mosaics, as well as the question of what it means to define mosaics as ‘Byzantine’ are reprinted....

    $1,240.00

  • AFTER THE TEXT
    LIZ JAMES
    After the Text honours the work of renowned historian Margaret Mullett, who since the 1970s has transformed the study of Byzantine literature. Her work has been influential in demonstrating the strength and variety of Byzantine texts. Byzantium is renowned for its achievements in architecture and the visual arts. Byzantium is renowned for its achievements in architecture and th...

    $1,100.00

  • CORPORATE LINKS AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
    EDUARD K.Y. CHEN / PETER DRYSDALE / JAMES H DAVIDSON / LIZ SIEMENSEN
    A major force in East Asia's remarkable economic growth and industrial transformation, foreign direct investment has been growing at 14?15 percent annually in Southeast Asia and China over the last decade. This timely volume examines the impact of investment on trade in the region, focusing especially on microeconomic issues of strategy, activity, and behavior of corporate inve...

    $2,100.00

  • CONSTANTINE OF RHODES, ON CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLES
    LIZ JAMES
    Constantine of Rhodes's tenth-century poem is an account of public monuments in Constantinople and of the Church of the Holy Apostles. In the opening section of the work, Constantine describes columns and sculptures within the city, seven of which he calls 'wonders'. In the second part of the poem, he portrays the Church of the Holy Apostles, offering an account of its architec...

    $1,480.00

  • DESIRE AND DENIAL IN BYZANTIUM
    LIZ JAMES
    The papers in this volume derive from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, in March 1997. Desire, sex, love and the erotic are not terms usually associated with Byzantium and Byzantine Studies, unlike celibacy, virginity and asceticism, which more readily spring to mind. In order to exa...

    $1,240.00

  • WONDERFUL THINGS: BYZANTIUM THROUGH ITS ART
    LIZ JAMES
    The essays collected in this book were delivered at the XLII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in London in 2009 to accompany the exhibition Byzantium 330-1453, at the Royal Academy. The exhibition was one of the most ambitious and complex exhibitions ever mounted at the Royal Academy, as well as one of the most popular, and the overall aim of the book is to reflect o...

    $1,240.00