Alicia Walker is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art at Bryn Mawr College. She is the recipient of research fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks and the Program for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, among others. She has published articles in The Art Bulletin, Gesta, Ars Orientalis and Muqarnas and is the co-editor (with Amanda Luyster) of Negotiating Secular and Sacred in Medieval Art.

"In the most stimulating book on Byzantine art to be published in a long time, Walker(Bryn Mawr College) scrutinizes five objects, or clusters of objects, under the headings "Emulation," "Appropriation," "Parity," 'Expropriation," and "Incomparability." -- A. Cutler, Choice

• Introduction: imaging emperor and empire in the middle Byzantine era; 1. Emulation: Islamic imports in the iconoclastic era: power, prestige, and the imperial image; 2. Appropriation: stylistic juxtaposition and the articulation of power: the Troyes Casket; 3. Parity: a Byzantine-Islamic community of kings: diplomatic gifts in The Book of Gifts and Rarities; 4. Expropriation: rhetorical images of the emperor and the articulation of difference: the Darmstadt Casket; 5. Incomparability: the Mouchroutas Hall and the aesthetics of imperial power; Conclusion.

Alicia Walker is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art at Bryn Mawr College. She is the recipient of research fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks and the Program for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, among others. She has published articles in The Art Bulletin, Gesta, Ars Orientalis and Muqarnas and is the co-editor (with Amanda Luyster) of Negotiating Secular and Sacred in Medieval Art.

"In the most stimulating book on Byzantine art to be published in a long time, Walker(Bryn Mawr College) scrutinizes five objects, or clusters of objects, under the headings "Emulation," "Appropriation," "Parity," 'Expropriation," and "Incomparability." -- A. Cutler, Choice

• Introduction: imaging emperor and empire in the middle Byzantine era; 1. Emulation: Islamic imports in the iconoclastic era: power, prestige, and the imperial image; 2. Appropriation: stylistic juxtaposition and the articulation of power: the Troyes Casket; 3. Parity: a Byzantine-Islamic community of kings: diplomatic gifts in The Book of Gifts and Rarities; 4. Expropriation: rhetorical images of the emperor and the articulation of difference: the Darmstadt Casket; 5. Incomparability: the Mouchroutas Hall and the aesthetics of imperial power; Conclusion.

Alicia Walker is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art at Bryn Mawr College. She is the recipient of research fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks and the Program for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, among others. She has published articles in The Art Bulletin, Gesta, Ars Orientalis and Muqarnas and is the co-editor (with Amanda Luyster) of Negotiating Secular and Sacred in Medieval Art.

"In the most stimulating book on Byzantine art to be published in a long time, Walker(Bryn Mawr College) scrutinizes five objects, or clusters of objects, under the headings "Emulation," "Appropriation," "Parity," 'Expropriation," and "Incomparability." -- A. Cutler, Choice

• Introduction: imaging emperor and empire in the middle Byzantine era; 1. Emulation: Islamic imports in the iconoclastic era: power, prestige, and the imperial image; 2. Appropriation: stylistic juxtaposition and the articulation of power: the Troyes Casket; 3. Parity: a Byzantine-Islamic community of kings: diplomatic gifts in The Book of Gifts and Rarities; 4. Expropriation: rhetorical images of the emperor and the articulation of difference: the Darmstadt Casket; 5. Incomparability: the Mouchroutas Hall and the aesthetics of imperial power; Conclusion.