Robyn Roslak
Ashgate
Hardback
232
2007
Offering fresh insights through a range of varied art-historical approaches to the Shahnama, the essays in this volume reveal how the subtle alterations in text and image serve to document changes in taste and style and can be understood as reflections of the changing role of the national epic in the imagination of Iranians and the equally changing messages ? often political in nature ? which the familiar stories were made to convey over the centuries.