Roman Constantinople in Byzantine Perspective /

This book studies the research perspective in which the literary inhabitants of Late Antique and medieval Constantinople remembered its past and conceptualised its existence as a Greek city that was the political capital of a Christian Roman state. Initial reactions to Constantine's foundation...

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Main Author: Magdalino, Paul (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences.
Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.

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Call Number: Z6207.G7DE3

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246 3 |a The Memorial and Aesthetic Rediscovery of Constantine's Beautiful City, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance 
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505 0 |t Contents -- Abstract -- Keywords --  Introduction --  1 Historical Research on Constantinople, 330-600 --  2 Memorial Literature and Research Culture, 6th-10th Centuries --  3 Cultural Heritage and Tourist Disinformation 1000-1453. From Bureaucratic to Scientific Antiquarianism --  4 The Rhetorical Rediscovery of Constantinople, Tenth to Thirteenth Centuries --  5 The Byzantios of Theodore Metochites and Its Legacy --  Conclusion --  Bibliography --  Index. 
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