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Byzantine Constantinople
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Author : Nevra Necipoğlu
language : de
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2001
Byzantine Constantinople written by Nevra Necipoğlu and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
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.
Byzantine Constantinople
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Author : Alexander Van Millingen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-10-31
Byzantine Constantinople written by Alexander Van Millingen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-31 with History categories.
A detailed description of the walls of Byzantine Constantinople with illustrations, maps and plans.
Constantinople Capital Of Byzantium
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Author : Jonathan Harris
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2009-05-05
Constantinople Capital Of Byzantium written by Jonathan Harris and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-05 with History categories.
This book examines the intriguing interaction between the spiritual and the political whilst reconstructs the awe-inspiring city in its heyday of 1200.
God S City
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Author : Nic Fields
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2017-07-30
God S City written by Nic Fields and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-30 with History categories.
Byzantium. Was it Greek or Roman, familiar or hybrid, barbaric or civilized, Oriental or Western? In the late eleventh century Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in Christendom, the seat of the Byzantine emperor, Christs vice-regent on earth, and the center of a predominately Christian empire, steeped in Greek cultural and artistic influences, yet founded and maintained by a Roman legal and administrative system. Despite the amalgam of Greek and Roman influences, however, its language and culture was definitely Greek. Constantinople truly was the capital of the Roman empire in the East, and from its founding under the first Constantinus to its fall under the eleventh and last Constantinus the inhabitants always called themselves Romaioi, Romans, not Hellniks, Greeks. Over its millennium long history the empire and its capital experienced many vicissitudes that included several periods of waxing and waning and more than one golden age.Its political will to survive is still eloquently proclaimed in the monumental double land walls of Constantinople, the greatest city fortifications ever built, on which the forces of barbarism dashed themselves for a thousand years. Indeed, Byzantium was one of the longest lasting social organizations in history. Very much part of this success story was the legendary Varangian Guard, the lite body of axe-bearing Northmen sworn to remain loyal to the true Christian emperor of the Romans. There was no hope for an empire that had lost the will to prosecute the grand and awful business of adventure. The Byzantine empire was certainly not of that stamp.
Constantinople And Its Hinterland
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Author : Cyril Mango
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Constantinople And Its Hinterland written by Cyril Mango and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with History categories.
From its foundation, the city of Constantinople dominated the Byzantine world. It was the seat of the emperor, the centre of government and church, the focus of commerce and culture, by far the greatest urban centre; its needs in terms of supplies and defense imposed their own logic on the development of the empire. Byzantine Constantinople has traditionally been treated in terms of the walled city and its immediate suburbs. In this volume, containing 25 papers delivered at the 27th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held at Oxford in 1993, the perspective has been enlarged to encompass a wider geographical setting, that of the city’s European and Asiatic hinterland. Within this framework a variety of interconnected topics have been addressed, ranging from the bare necessities of life and defence to manufacture and export, communications between the capital and its hinterland, culture and artistic manifestations and the role of the sacred.
Studies On The History And Topography Of Byzantine Constantinople
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Author : Paul Magdalino
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007
Studies On The History And Topography Of Byzantine Constantinople written by Paul Magdalino and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Constantinople originated in 330 A.D. as the last great urban foundation of the ancient world. When it was sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 it was the greatest city of the European Middle Ages. The studies in the present volume examine aspects of this long and complex history as reflected in the topography, monuments, self-image and political status of medieval Constantinople. They include a revised English version of a monograph published in French ten years ago, nine reprinted articles, and two published here for the first time
The Fall Of Constantinople To The Ottomans
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Author : Michael Angold
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-11
The Fall Of Constantinople To The Ottomans written by Michael Angold and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-11 with History categories.
The fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 marked the end of a thousand years of the Christian Roman Empire. Thereafter, world civilisation began a process of radical change. The West came to identify itself as Europe; the Russians were set on the path of autocracy; the Ottomans were transformed into a world power while the Greeks were left exiles in their own land. The loss of Constantinople created a void. How that void was to be filled is the subject of this book. Michael Angold examines the context of late Byzantine civilisation and the cultural negotiation which allowed the city of Constantinople to survive for so long in the face of Ottoman power. He shows how the devastating impact of its fall lay at the centre of a series of interlocking historical patterns which marked this time of decisive change for the late medieval world. This concise and original study will be essential reading for students and scholars of Byzantine and late medieval history, as well as anyone with an interest in this significant turning point in world history.
Western Travellers To Constantinople
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Author : Krijna Nelly Ciggaar
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1996
Western Travellers To Constantinople written by Krijna Nelly Ciggaar and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
This volume provides a survey of the thousands and thousands of people from the West who travelled to Constantinople between 962 and 1204, and of the influence Byzantium exerted on them and on those who remained home. Crusaders were an important group, but other social groups played a key role as well in the exchange of ideas.
Constantinople
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Author : Ken Dark
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2013-11-29
Constantinople written by Ken Dark and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-29 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Rise And Fall Of The Byzantine Empire
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Author : Monique Vescia
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2016-07-15
The Rise And Fall Of The Byzantine Empire written by Monique Vescia and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Growing on the heels of the collapse of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire was in some ways a continuation of its predecessor, extending its history for another 1,000 years. With a new capital at Constantinople, however, it also had a distinctly Eastern character of its own. Readers are transported to Byzantium in this absorbing volume, which recounts the history of this brilliant and articulate civilization as well as the many cultural and architectural achievements it spawned before falling to the Ottomans in 1453. Seminal events are covered in depth in the text and also highlighted in a timeline.