Studies on Constantinople

ISBN-13: 9780860783725 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 288 str.

Cyril Mango

Opis

Examines the history, monuments and topography of Byzantine Constantinople. Many of the articles focus on the imperial constructions of the first centuries of the city's existence - structures which provided the main monumental framework around which Constantinople developed and its life was lived.

Spis treści

Contents: The development of Constantinople as an urban centre; Constantinopolitana; Constantine’s column; Constantine’s porphyry column and the chapel of St Constantine; Constantine’s mausoleum and the translation of relics (with addendum); Three imperial Byzantine sarcophagi discovered in 1750; A newly-discovered Byzantine imperial sarcophagus; The Fourteenth Region of Constantinople; Epigrammes honorifiques, statues et portraits à Byzance; The columns of Justinian and his successors; Justinian’s equestrian statue; The date of the Studius basilica at Istanbul; The church of Sts Sergius and Bacchus at Constantinople and the alleged tradition of octagonal palatine churches; The church of Sts Sergius and Bacchus once again; On the history of the templon and the martyrion of St Artemios at Constantinople; A 12th-century description of St Sophia; The conciliar edict of 1166; A Russian graffito in St Sophia, Constantinople; A note on Panagia Kamariotissa and some imperial foundations of the 10th and 11th centuries at Constantinople; The date of the Anonymous Russian Description of Constantinople; The work of M.I. Nomidis in the Vefa Kilise Camii, Istanbul (1937-38); Addenda; Index.

O autorze

Cyril Mango