Embassies to Byzantium.
Anacharsis| N° d'inventaire | 23523 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 128 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791092011999 |
Liutprand, Bishop of Cremona, carried out two embassies to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine emperors, in the mid-10th century. During the first, in 948, he entered the most sumptuous rooms of the Grand Palace. Stunned by the splendor of the court, and in particular its golden automatons in the shape of lions and birds, he painted a stunning picture. Twenty years later, he returned in the name of the German Emperor Otto, rival of Byzantium.
Badly received, rejected, treated like a lackey, he wrote a vitriolic, grotesque portrait of the upper echelons of Constantinople to take revenge. These two eyewitness accounts, both unparalleled and vivid, take the reader straight to the heart of the vanished Byzantine empire.
Liutprand, Bishop of Cremona, carried out two embassies to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine emperors, in the mid-10th century. During the first, in 948, he entered the most sumptuous rooms of the Grand Palace. Stunned by the splendor of the court, and in particular its golden automatons in the shape of lions and birds, he painted a stunning picture. Twenty years later, he returned in the name of the German Emperor Otto, rival of Byzantium.
Badly received, rejected, treated like a lackey, he wrote a vitriolic, grotesque portrait of the upper echelons of Constantinople to take revenge. These two eyewitness accounts, both unparalleled and vivid, take the reader straight to the heart of the vanished Byzantine empire.