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

• Main Authors: Curta, Florin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Szmoniewski, Bartłomiej Szymon (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
• Subjects: Europe-History-476-1492.; Civilization-History.; Archaeology.; Social history.; Technology-History.; History of Medieval Europe.; Cultural History.; Social History.; History of Technology.

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 silve...

Table of Contents:

• 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. .