Meanings and Functions of the Ruler's Image in the Mediterranean World (11th - 15th Centuries)
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Meanings and Functions of the Ruler's Image in the Mediterranean World (11th - 15th Centuries)

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(The open access version of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.) The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public mise-en-scène of the rulers' bodies. Its emphasis is on the ways in which medieval monarchs in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a variety of...