Studies on Constantinople

Variorum
Cyril Mango
ISBN: 0860783723
price: $122.95   hardcover

This volume is devoted to the history, monuments and topography of Byzantine Constantinople. It 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, structures which provided the framework around which Constantinople developed.
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, with that provided by the surviving buildings themselves and the remains that have been excavated.
Contents: Preface; 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 14th 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.