Series: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia

Processions of all kinds-military, civic, religious, and more-were hallmarks of the ancient and medieval world. Yet urban processions in Byzantine culture have never been thoroughly studied, even though there were as many as two processions a week in Constantinople alone, often featuring eminent individuals like the emperor and the patriarch, but also less prominent people, like the teams who decorated...

The Diagram as Paradigm is the first book that examines medieval diagrams from a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on three regions—Byzantium, the Islamicate world, and the Latin West—each culturally diverse and closely linked through complex processes of intellectual, artistic, diplomatic, and mercantile exchange. The volume brings together case studies, often of little-known material, by an international group of specialists. It is...