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This volume draws on two pieces of evidence which offer insights into life in Byzantium: the illuminated manuscript Skylitzes Matritensis and the great Christian monument turned mosque, Hagia Sophia. The main part of the discussion focuses on Skylitzes Natritensis which is a dramatic portrayal of the historical events of the period from Michael I Rangabe (811-813) to the accession of Isaac Comnenos (1057-1059), described as a 'videotape in action style'. The manuscript depicts a great many themes, including coronations, marriages, ceremonial life, disasters, persecutions, war, violence...

A study of the origins and development of these two important articles of clothing - archetypical of Byzantine court and ecclesiastical life.

Contents: Chapter l. The raison detre of the research on Byzantium (The abstract image in Late antiquity and Byzantium the New Rome - the Renaissances); Chapter 2. Byzantine architecture I (A synthesis of Late antique and Oriental influences - the transformation of the Christian basilica - Constantinople the Queen of Cities - the Sacred palace - House churches and Martyria - Imperial basilicas - Palaces); Chapter 3. Byzantine architecture II (The Exarchate of Ravenna - the development on Sicily in Bulgaria in Serbia Cappadocia Armenia and Georgia); Chapter 4. Byzantine sculpture (Statues...