Byzantium in the Mirror
Piltz, Elisabeth![Byzantium in the Mirror](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/242/24242444/CHSBZCOP0324242444.jpg)
Byzantium cannot be reconstructed, but its art provides an intensely vivid picture of its official and everyday life. The author of this volume has chosen two great works to illustrate this. The illuminated manuscript of the Skylitzes Chronicle in the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid is unique. It is the most important preserved document illustrating particular historical events in a secular framework, and a study of this manuscript transports us...