This chapter focuses on a luxury textile produced in the second half of the 13th century and pres... more This chapter focuses on a luxury textile produced in the second half of the 13th century and presented as a gift to an Italian embassy from the Republic of Genoa, which had visited the Byzantine emperor in Nikaia to negotiate a diplomatic treaty. The author chose this object here because it is one of the few surviving portable objects that must have played an important role in its historical context. The textile is unique in that it has a significant political association with the site of the Byzantine imperial palace at Nymphaion, in the eastern Mediterranean, where an event occurred that almost shifted the power dynamics that existed at that time. This object moved from the East to the West, to Genoa, to be displayed at the altar as an antependium in the cathedral of the city. The textile is a peplos , a large piece of porphyry silk. Keywords: Byzantine imperial palace; Nymphaion; peplos ; Republic of Genoa
This chapter focuses on a luxury textile produced in the second half of the 13th century and pres... more This chapter focuses on a luxury textile produced in the second half of the 13th century and presented as a gift to an Italian embassy from the Republic of Genoa, which had visited the Byzantine emperor in Nikaia to negotiate a diplomatic treaty. The author chose this object here because it is one of the few surviving portable objects that must have played an important role in its historical context. The textile is unique in that it has a significant political association with the site of the Byzantine imperial palace at Nymphaion, in the eastern Mediterranean, where an event occurred that almost shifted the power dynamics that existed at that time. This object moved from the East to the West, to Genoa, to be displayed at the altar as an antependium in the cathedral of the city. The textile is a peplos , a large piece of porphyry silk. Keywords: Byzantine imperial palace; Nymphaion; peplos ; Republic of Genoa
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