"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Epic of the Persian Kings: the Art of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh', held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 11 September 2010 to 9 January 2011, in celebration of the millennium of the completion of Ferdowsi's work."--T.p. verso
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
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Glossary
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Includes bibliographical references (p.258-265) and index
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
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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