Henry Maguire is a former Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and Professor of Art History at Johns Hopkins University.
Henry Maguire has edited a splendid volume of essays on the court
culture of the great palace [of the Middle Byzantium Empire] in its
heyday, before the sack of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade in
1204. The great palace of the Middle Byzantium Empire was a byword
among westerners for its magnificence—and a throne that went up and
down. There is rich information in these essays on this technology,
costume, and the use of relics and icons… [The essays’] most
original contribution lies in the hints they provide as to how this
much misunderstood society worked. Plenty of black-and-white
illustrations make this a handsome book.
*Times Higher Education Supplement*
At once eclectic, insightful, and deeply learned, the essays in
this excellent volume usher the reader into a complex and dynamic
intellectual, artistic, and social milieu: the Byzantine imperial
court.
*Religious Studies Review*
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