Studies on Constantinople

by Mango,Cyril

• ISBN13: 9780860783725
• ISBN10: 0860783723
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-03-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

This volume is devoted to the history, monuments and topography of Byzantine Constantinople, and includes two specially written pieces, as well as up-dates to the studies reprinted. Many of the articles deal with the imperial constructions of the first centuries of the City's existence - for instance, the columns of Constantine and Justinian, the Mausoleum of the Holy Apostles and the churches of St Sophia, St John of Studius, and Sts Sergius and Bacchus - structures which provided the basic monumental framework around which Constantinople developed and its life was lived. In his reconstruction of these monuments and their history, Cyril Mango demonstrates how much can be achieved by combining the information gained from meticulous examination of the written sources, whether contemporary or from post-medieval travellers, with that provided by the surviving buildings themselves and the remains that have been excavated.Ce volume, voué à l'histoire, aux monuments et à la topographie de Constantinople la Byzantine, comprend deux études rédigées pour l'occasion, ainsi qu'une mise à jour des travaux qui y sont re-publiés. Bon nombre des études traitent plus particulièrement des constructions impériales datant des premiers siècles d'existence de la cité - tels, les colonnes de Constantin et de Justinien, la Mausolé des Saints Apôtres et les églises de Ste Sophie, St Jean de Studius, ou de Sts Serge et Bacchus; un ensemble de structures qui apportèrent la base monumentale autour de laquelle Constantinople s'est développée et a vécu. Au travers de cette reconstruction des monuments et de leur histoire, Cyril Mango démontre combien peut être atteint en combinant l'information acquise à partir d'un examen méticuleux des sources écrites - que celles-ci soient contemporaines ou proviennent des voyageurs post-médiévaux - à celle que l'on peut tirer des b'timents-mêmes qui ont survécu, ainsi que des restes qui été retrouvés dans les fouilles.

Table of 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

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