Byzantine Constantinople: The Walls of the City and Adjoining Historical Sites - Brossura

Van Millingen, Alexander

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ISBN 10: 1108014569 ISBN 13: 9781108014564

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Riassunto

One of the most detailed works describing the walls of this renowned city, Alexander Van Milligen's Byzantine Constantinople: The Walls of the City and Adjoining Historical Sites (1899) is of use to anyone interested in Byzantine architecture, the Byzantine Empire, and medieval history more generally. Van Milligen uses his expertise as a historian who had lived and taught in Constantinople to provide a detailed account of the Byzantine capital before it fell in 1453. Complete with meticulous verbal descriptions, illustrations, maps and plans, Van Milligen combines historical accounts with physical surveys, tracing Constantinople's expansion. He describes how the city spread and how the walls adapted, pausing to outline the importance of certain structures within the city, and of the hierarchy of gates within the walls. He also includes a table of emperors to assist the general reader, while his painstaking detail makes the book useful to professional scholars as well.

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Descrizione del libro:

Van Millligen's Byzantine Constantinople describes Constantinople's medieval walls in great detail, using both material and textual evidence. He also outlines the significance of the various gates and describes the city's growth. Useful to professional scholars, this book is also accessible to general readers with an interest in Byzantine history.

Contenuti:

1. The site of Constantinople - the limits of Byzantium; 2. The city of Constantinople - its limits, fortifications, interior arrangement; 3. The Theodosian walls; 4. The gates in the Theodosian walls - The Golden Gate; 5. The gates in the Theodosian walls continued; 6. Repairs on the Theodosian walls; 7. The palace of the Porphyrogenitus (Tekfour Serai); 8. The fortifcations on the north-western side of the city, before the seventh century; 9. The walls of the Emperor Manuel Comnenus; 10. The Tower of Anemas: The Tower of Isaac Angelus; 11. Inmates of the Prison of Anemas; 12. The Wall of the Emperor Heraclius: The Wall of the Emperor Leo the Armenian; 13. The seaward walls; 14. The walls along the Golden Horn; 15. The walls along the Golden Horn continued; 16. The walls along the Sea of Marmora; 17. The harbours on the Sea of Marmora; 18. The harbours on the Sea of Marmora continued; 19. The Hebdomon; 20. The Anastasian Wall; Table of Emperors; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1108014569
• ISBN 13: 9781108014564
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 488