Liutprando of Cremona is, without a doubt, one of the most remarkable writters in 10th century, un West. As ambassador, first of Berengario and after oton 1, he had the opportunity to visit Constantinople.
The testimonies of their embassies, consigned in two works - Antapodosis and
Legatio -, reveal diverse Byzantine images that, from the point of view of the
theoretical and symbolic analysis of the power, allow severa! interpretative
levels. The author stops in the analysis of the speech that generales the story of
Liutprando, establishing the presence of two categories of power. The
verbalized power whose expression is the adjetival narration of its experience
and the oppositions of images (Oriente/Occidente); and the represented power,
embodied in the palace liturgy, essential componen! of the Byzantine kratofanía.
Zamora Navia, P. (2015). Imágenes bizantinas del s. X en Liutprando de Cremona. Discurso, memoria y poder. Byzantion Nea Hellás, (17-18), Pág. 85–105. Retrieved from https://nuevosfoliosbioetica.uchile.cl/index.php/RBNH/article/view/37963
