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The Velestino Hoard = Casting Light on the Byzantine 'Dark Ages' /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Velestino Hoard/ by Florin Curta, Bartłomiej Szymon Szmoniewski.
Reminder of title:	Casting Light on the Byzantine 'Dark Ages' /
Author:	Curta, Florin.
other author:	Szmoniewski, Bartłomiej Szymon.
Description:	XIII, 237 p. 58 illus., 47 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Europe—History—476-1492. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04846-4
ISBN:	9783030048464

The Velestino Hoard = Casting Light on the Byzantine 'Dark Ages' /
Curta, Florin.

The Velestino HoardCasting Light on the Byzantine 'Dark Ages' /[electronic resource] :by Florin Curta, Bartłomiej Szymon Szmoniewski. - 1st ed. 2019. - XIII, 237 p. 58 illus., 47 illus. in color.online resource. - New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture,2730-9363. - New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture,.

1. Introduction -- 2. Forgery or Genuine? -- 3. Humans or Human-like Figures -- 4. Real and Fantastic Animals -- 5. Ornaments -- 6. Style and Chronology -- 7. Production -- 8. Function: Dies or Models? -- 9. Historical Context -- 10. Conclusion -- Catalogue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- References. .

This book examines the remarkable Velestino hoard, found in Thessaly in the 1920s, and analyses the light that this collection of artifacts sheds on a poorly studied period of Byzantine history, and on largely neglected aspects of Byzantine civilization. Many collections of Byzantine gold- and silverware, such as Vrap and Seuso, have been surrounded by controversy. None, however, has been under more suspicion than the Velestino hoard, particularly with regards to its authenticity. The hoard contains no gold and no silver, and is in fact a collection of bronze and leaden plaques, some with human, and others with animal or geometric representations. The authors examine three distinct aspects of the hoard: the iconography of its components, the method of its production, and the function of those components. The conclusions that they reached provide valuable new insights into eighth-century Byzantine culture. The book explores the Byzantine cultural and political context of the Velestino hoard and will appeal to historians and art historians of early Byzantium, as well as archaeologists and historians of early medieval technologies.

ISBN: 9783030048464

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-04846-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1256313
Europe—History—476-1492.

LC Class. No.: D111-203

Dewey Class. No.: 940.902

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