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Author : Pierre Gilles
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Antiquities of Constantinople written by Pierre Gilles and published by . This book was released on 1729 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pierre Gilles
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pierre Gilles' Constantinople written by Pierre Gilles and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new edition of Pierre Gilles' 'De topographia Constantinopoleos' includes a new English translation of the entire work with references to Gilles' sources and to the most important recent scholarship on the city and its monuments, with illustrations, notes, bibliography and index"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Marios Philippides
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317016084
Total Pages : 919 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 written by Marios Philippides and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major study is a comprehensive scholarly work on a key moment in the history of Europe, the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The result of years of research, it presents all available sources along with critical evaluations of these narratives. The authors have consulted texts in all relevant languages, both those that remain only in manuscript and others that have been printed, often in careless and inferior editions. Attention is also given to 'folk history' as it evolved over centuries, producing prominent myths and folktales in Greek, medieval Russian, Italian, and Turkish folklore. Part I, The Pen, addresses the complex questions introduced by this myriad of original literature and secondary sources.
Author : John Freely
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141926058
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Istanbul written by John Freely and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1998-02-26 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Istanbul's history is a catalogue of change, not least of name, yet it has managed to retain its own unique identity. John Freely captures the flavour of daily life as well as court ceremonial and intrigue. The book also includes a comprehensive gazetteer of all major monuments and museums. An in-depth study of this legendary city through its many different ages from its earliest foundation to the present day - the perfect traveller's companion and guide.
Author : John Matthews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197585493
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book From Byzantium to Constantinople written by John Matthews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundation of Constantinople was a key moment in the political, cultural, and religious history of the ancient Mediterranean world, and its emergence as the capital of a Byzantine and Christian empire was a crucial influence in the subsequently separate developments of the eastern and western components of that world, down to the present day. Exploring the historical circumstances of the foundation and early development of the city, From Byzantium to Constantinople chronicles the emergence of a great metropolis in the context of imperial power and contributes to an understanding of one of the most significant of all European and Middle Eastern cities.
Author : Nevra Necipoğlu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004116252
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Byzantine Constantinople written by Nevra Necipoğlu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers on the city of Constantinople by a distinguished group of Byzantine historians, art historians, and archaeologists provides new perspectives as well as new evidence on the monuments, topography, social and economic life of the Byzantine imperial capital.
Author : Ken Dark
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782971815
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Constantinople written by Ken Dark and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Istanbul, Europe’s largest city, became an urban centre of exceptional size when it was chosen by Constantine the Great as a new Roman capital city. Named ‘Constantinople' after him, the city has been studied through its rich textual sources and surviving buildings, but its archaeology remains relatively little known compared to other great urban centres of the ancient and medieval worlds. Constantinople: Archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis is a major archaeological assessment of a key period in the development of this historic city. It uses material evidence, contemporary developments in urban archaeology and archaeological theory to explore over a thousand years of the city’s development. Moving away from the scholarly emphasis on the monumental core or city defences, the volume investigates the inter-mural area between the fifth-century land walls and the Constantinian city wall – a zone which encompasses half of the walled area but which has received little archaeological attention. Utilizing data from a variety of sources, including the ‘Istanbul Rescue Archaeology Project’ created to record material threatened with destruction, the analysis proposes a new model of Byzantine Constantinople. A range of themes are explored including the social, economic and cognitive development, Byzantine perceptions of the city, the consequences of imperial ideology and the impact of ‘self-organization’ brought about by many minor decisions. Constantinople casts new light on the transformation of an ancient Roman capital to an Orthodox Christian holy city and will be of great importance to archaeologists and historians.
Author : Charles Odahl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136961283
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Constantine and the Christian Empire written by Charles Odahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on over a quarter of a century of the author's research and experience, this book focuses on the man and his life for scholars, students, and those interested in Roman imperial, early Christian, and Byzantine imperial history. It is illustrated with ninety-two photographs and eight maps.
Author : Liz James
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317161769
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Constantine of Rhodes, On Constantinople and the Church of the Holy Apostles written by Liz James and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constantine of Rhodes's tenth-century poem is an account of public monuments in Constantinople and of the Church of the Holy Apostles. In the opening section of the work, Constantine describes columns and sculptures within the city, seven of which he calls 'wonders'. In the second part of the poem, he portrays the Church of the Holy Apostles, offering an account of its architecture and internal decoration, notably the mosaics, seven of which are also depicted as 'wonders'. On one level, the poem offers an account of what was visible, a sense of city topography and, in the case of the Apostoleion, a vital description of a now-lost building. But it cannot be read as a straightforward description. Rather, Constantine's work offers insights into Byzantine perceptions of works of art. The monuments Constantine decided to portray and the ways in which he chose to describe them say as much, if not more, about the social and cultural milieu in which he operated as about the actual physical appearance of the monuments themselves. Further, the poem itself, as it survives in one fifteenth-century manuscript, raises questions: is it, in its current form, a single poem or is it made up of a compilation of Constantine's writings? This book supersedes the two previous editions of the poem, both dating to 1896, and provides the first full translation of the text. It consists of a new Greek edition of Constantine's poem, with an introductory essay, prepared by Ioannis Vassis, and a translation and commentary by a group of scholars headed by Liz James. Liz James also contributes an extensive discussion of the two distinct parts of the poem, the city monuments and the Church of the Holy Apostles.
Author : Daniel O'Quinn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295536
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Engaging the Ottoman Empire written by Daniel O'Quinn and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel O'Quinn investigates the complex interpersonal, political, and aesthetic relationships between Europeans and Ottomans in the long eighteenth century. Bookmarking his analysis with the conflict leading to the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz on one end and the 1815 bid for Greek independence on the other, he follows the fortunes of notable British, Dutch, and French diplomats to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire as they lived and worked according to the capitulations surrendered to the Sultan. Closely reading a mixed archive of drawings, maps, letters, dispatches, memoirs, travel narratives, engraved books, paintings, poems, and architecture, O'Quinn demonstrates the extent to which the Ottoman state was not only the subject of historical curiosity in Europe but also a key foil against which Western theories of governance were articulated. Juxtaposing narrative accounts of diplomatic life in Constantinople, such as those contained in the letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the English ambassador, with visual depictions such as those of the costumes of the Ottoman elite produced by the French-Flemish painter Jean Baptiste Vanmour, he traces the dissemination of European representations and interpretations of the Ottoman Empire throughout eighteenth-century material culture. In a series of eight interlocking chapters, O'Quinn presents sustained and detailed case studies of particular objects, personalities, and historical contexts, framing intercultural encounters between East and West through a set of key concerns: translation, mediation, sociability, and hospitality. Richly illustrated and provocatively argued, Engaging the Ottoman Empire demonstrates that study of the Ottoman world is vital to understanding European modernity.
Author : Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520304551
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Constantinople written by Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Christian spaces and agents assumed prominent positions in civic life, the end of the long span of the fourth century was marked by large-scale religious change. Churches had overtaken once-thriving pagan temples, old civic priesthoods were replaced by prominent bishops, and the rituals of the city were directed toward the Christian God. Such changes were particularly pronounced in the newly established city of Constantinople, where elites from various groups contended to control civic and imperial religion. Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos argues that imperial Christianity was in fact a manifestation of traditional Roman religious structures. In particular, she explores how deeply established habits of ritual engagement in shared social spaces—ones that resonated with imperial ideology and appealed to the memories of previous generations—constructed meaning to create a new imperial religious identity. By examining three dynamics—ritual performance, rhetoric around violence, and the preservation and curation of civic memory—she distinguishes the role of Christian practice in transforming the civic and cultic landscapes of the late antique polis.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Art Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section: Notes and reviews.
Author : Paul Magdalino
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004700765
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Roman Constantinople in Byzantine Perspective written by Paul Magdalino and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the research perspective in which the literary inhabitants of Late Antique and medieval Constantinople remembered its past and conceptualised its existence as a Greek city that was the political capital of a Christian Roman state. Initial reactions to Constantine’s foundation noted its novel Christian orientation, but the memorial mode of writing about the city that developed from the sixth century recollected the traditional civic cultural heritage that Constantinople claimed both as the New Rome, and as the continuation of ancient Byzantion. This research culture increasingly became the preserve of the imperial bureaucracy, and focused on the city’s sculptured monuments as bearers of eschatological meaning. Yet from the tenth century, writers progressively preferred to define the wonder and spectacle of Constantinople in the aesthetic mode of urban praise inherited from late antiquity, developing the notion of the city as a cosmic theatre of excellence.
Author : Jonathan Harris
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826430864
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium written by Jonathan Harris and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the intriguing interaction between the spiritual and the political whilst reconstructs the awe-inspiring city in its heyday of 1200.
Author : Hillary Sumner-Boyd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136821422
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Strolling Through Istanbul written by Hillary Sumner-Boyd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. Long acknowledged to be the 'best travel guide to Istanbul' (Times of London) this classic of travel literature is now available in a larger format in hardback binding. The work is both a useful and informative guide to the city with major useful monuments described in detail in terms of the history and architecture. Although the main emphasis of the book is on the Byzantine and Ottoman Antiquities, the city is not treated as a museum in the context of a living city. Itineraries are arranged so that each one takes the visitor to a different part of Istanbul.
Author : Geoffrey Nathan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004344896
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Basileia written by Geoffrey Nathan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basileia brings together 18 essays on the topic of Imperium and Culture in the Byzantine Empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume is dedicated to Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys, who number among the founding members of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies and whose contribution to the field is internationally recognised. Each of the honorands has contributed a chapter; other contributors include Roger Scott, Pauline Allen, Brian Croke, Ann Mullett, Geoffrey Nathan, Lynda Garland, Bronwen Neil, Andrew Gillett, Amelia Brown, Andrew Stone, Nigel Westbrook and Erika Gielen. This collection will have a broad appeal to those interested in the complex relationship between imperial rule and culture in Byzantium. The volume includes 50 colour and black-and-white images.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004517987
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Byzantium to China: Religion, History and Culture on the Silk Roads written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume celebrates the outstanding achievements of Samuel N. C. Lieu and his contribution to Manichaean, Roman, Byzantine, and Silk Road Studies. Readers will find his wide range of scholarly interests reflected in the contributions of his colleagues and former students.
