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Article: Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium: Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond.(Book review)
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- March 1, 2008
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Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium: Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond. By Antony Eastmond. Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs 10. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xxii + 210 pp. $89.95 cloth.
Antony Eastmond writes with authority and clarity on a topic that is complex and frequently minimized: the issue of Byzantine identity in the aftermath of 1204 and the loss of Constantinople to the armies of the Fourth Crusade. After 1204, Byzantium was fragmented into three competing centers and three competing dynasties: the empire of Thessaloniki, ruled by the Doukai; the empire of Nicaea, ruled by the Vatatzes; and the empire of Trebizond, ...