Power and image. Essays on pressing imagology. Fights M.

Imagology is a new branch of historical knowledge, which studies which systems of images are involved in establishing relations of domination and subordination, in the acquisition and withholding of power, in building connections between various groups of elites, on the one hand, and between the dominant and subject layers of society, with another. The authors of the collection trace the emergence and fate of a number of pressing images in the cultures of the past - from antiquity to the era of the Great French Revolution. Concrete examples of articles belong to the history of Russia, ancient Rome, Byzantium, a number of countries of Western Europe and America.