Epic of the Persian kings : the art of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brend, Barbara, 1940-
Corporate Author: Fitzwilliam Museum
Other Authors: Melville, C. P. 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, 2010.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The Shahnameh in Persian culture
  • The Shahnameh in historical context / Charles Melville
  • The Shahnameh in Persian literary history / Firuza Abdullaeva
  • The Shahnameh as world literature / Dick Davis
  • The tradition of illustration / Barbara Brend
  • The Shahnameh in art / Barbara Brend
  • The shape of the Shahnameh
  • An explosion of images: the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries
  • Princely patronage and beyond: the fifteenth century
  • Old and new ways of seeing: the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
  • The Shahnameh in India: the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries
  • Characters and creatures in the Shahnameh
  • Illustrated Shahnameh manuscripts and single folios in British collections.