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Seeing Byzantium through Edwin Freshfield’s eyes: Arts and Crafts, antiquarianism, and learned societies at the end of the nineteenth century

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Abstract

This article focuses on three Byzantine capitals acquired by Edwin Freshfield and later donated to the church of the Wisdom of God in Lower Kingswood, which provide us with two ways to see through Byzantium. The first looks at their original Constantinopolitan context lost at the time of their acquisition. The second reflects on how Byzantine materials attracted wealthy Western European collectors, who combined antiquarian curiosity with the quest for the authentic Christian faith. Their privileged status allowed them both to possess these witnesses of the sacred past and even to project their own image to posterity as being analogous to that of Byzantine patrons.

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Author(s): Vanni F, Varsallona J

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

Year: 2024

Volume: 48

Issue: 1

Pages: 120-147

Print publication date: 01/04/2024

Online publication date: 08/03/2024

Acceptance date: 16/11/2023

Date deposited: 18/01/2024

ISSN (print): 0307-0131

ISSN (electronic): 1749-625X

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/byz.2023.37

DOI: 10.1017/byz.2023.37

ePrints DOI: 10.57711/8s39-x272

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