Chapter 2 Visualizing Punishment in Byzantium: Disseminating Memories of Quelled Revolts before the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
In: Revolts and Political Violence in Early Modern Imagery
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Galina Tirnanić
Galina Tirnanić
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Abstract
This chapter investigates the visual effect of spectacles of punishment in Byzantium. By considering several examples from the long Byzantine history of revolts, it explores two categories of image: primary and secondary. The category of primary images includes the actual bodies of punished usurpers and staged public scenes in which those bodies were juxtaposed with the body of the triumphant emperor. The category of secondary images of these events includes painted illustrations, which are rare, and mental images, formed in the minds of those who read or heard accounts of the events.