Pierre Gilles' Constantinople
| Author | : Pierre Gilles |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
"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.
Istanbul
| Author | : Bettany Hughes |
| Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
| Total Pages | : 666 |
| Release | : 2017-09-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0306825856 |
Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For much of its history it was the very center of the world, known simply as "The City," but, as Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city, but a global story. In this epic new biography, Hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey from the Neolithic to the present, through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities--exploring the ways that Istanbul's influence has spun out to shape the wider world. Hughes investigates what it takes to make a city and tells the story not just of emperors, viziers, caliphs, and sultans, but of the poor and the voiceless, of the women and men whose aspirations and dreams have continuously reinvented Istanbul. Written with energy and animation, award-winning historian Bettany Hughes deftly guides readers through Istanbul's rich layers of history. Based on meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, this captivating portrait of the momentous life of Istanbul is visceral, immediate, and authoritative -- narrative history at its finest.
The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople
| Author | : Elena N. Boeck |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2021-04-29 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1107197279 |
Biography of the medieval Mediterranean's most cross-culturally significant sculptural monument, the tallest in the pre-modern world.
Fountains and Water Culture in Byzantium
| Author | : Brooke Shilling |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2016-10-13 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1107105994 |
This collection explores the ancient fountains of Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul, reviving the senses of past water cultures.
Byzantine Narrative
| Author | : John Burke |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 650 |
| Release | : 2006-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 900434487X |
"Byzantine Narrative: Papers in Honour of Roger Scott"--"Copyright"--"Dedication" -- "Contents" -- "Introduction" -- "Roger Scott" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "KEYNOTE PAPERS" -- "Novelisation in Byzantium: Narrative after the Revival of Fiction" -- "Narrating Justinian: From Malalas to Manasses" -- "NARRATIVE IN HISTORIANS, CHRONICLES & FICTION" -- "To Narrate the Events of the Past: On Byzantine Historians, and Historians on Byzantium" -- "Tradition and Originality in Photius' Historical Reading" -- "Narrating the Trials and Death in Exile of Pope Martin I and Maximus the Confessor" -- "The Use of Metaphor in Michael Psellos' Chronographia" -- "War and Peace in the Alexiad" -- "Moralising History: the Synopsis Historiarum of John Skylitzes" -- "The Representation of Augustae in John Skylitzes' Synopsis Historiarum" -- "The Madrid Skylitzes as an Audio-Visual Experiment" -- "The Goths and the Bees in Jordanes: A Narrative of No Return" -- "From 'Fallen Woman' to Theotokos: Music, Women's Voices and Byzantine Narratives of Gender Identity" -- "How the Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds became a Tale: Grafting Narrative" -- "Lamenting the Fall or Disguising a Manifesto? The Poem Conquest of Constantinople" -- "A Probable Solution to the Problem of the Chronicle of the Turkish Sultans" -- "NARRATIVE IN BYZANTINE ART" -- "The Narration of Christ' s Passion in Early Christian Art" -- "Observations on the Paintings of the Exodus Chapel, Bagawat Necropolis, Kharga Oasis, Egypt" -- "The Column of Arcadius: Retlections of a Roman Narrative Tradition" -- "Biblical Narrative in the Mosaics of Bishop Theodore's Cathedral, Aquileia" -- "Plato, Plutarch and the Sibyl in the Fresco Decoration of the Episcopal Church of the Virgin Ljeviška in Prizren" -- "Narrativity in Armenian Manuscript Illustration
The Horoscope of Emperor Baldwin II
| Author | : Filip Van Tricht |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2018-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004383182 |
In The Horoscope of Emperor Baldwin II Filip Van Tricht presents a microstudy of political, social and cultural life in Latin-Byzantine Constantinople and Romania. A ‘new’ set of sources is used to question the traditionally negative view of the Byzantine capital under Latin rule. Combined with an analysis of other underused historical materials, mid-13th century Latin-Byzantine Constantinople is redefined as a city that—in spite of the Western conquest during the Fourth Crusade—remained dynamic, with vibrant internal and international politics, and with interesting developments in the social, religious, artistic, and scientific spheres. Against the background of a shared Roman past the metropolis on the Bosporus became a fascinating laboratory of Latin-Byzantine interaction.
The Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s (1682–1761) Journal of a Voyage in North America
| Author | : Micah True |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 571 |
| Release | : 2019-09-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004408649 |
The French Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s 1744 journal of his voyage through French North America—New France, Louisiana, and the Caribbean—is among the richest eighteenth-century accounts of the continent’s colonization, as well as its indigenous inhabitants, flora, and fauna. Micah True’s new translation of this influential text is the first to appear since 1763. It provides the first complete and reliable English version of Charlevoix’s journal and reveals the famous Jesuit to have been a better literary stylist than has often been assumed on the basis of earlier translations. Complemented by a detailed introduction and richly annotated, this volume finally makes accessible to an Anglophone audience one of the key texts of eighteenth-century French America.
The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople
| Author | : Sarah Bassett |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
This book reconstructs Constantinople's collection of antiquities from its foundation to its fall.
