Constantinople: Capital of ByzantiumThis text examines the interaction between the spiritual and the political whilst reconstructing the awe-inspiring city of Constantinople in its heyday of 1200. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 The City of Wonders | 4 |
2 Founding Fathers | 18 |
3 Defence | 40 |
4 Palaces and Power | 59 |
5 Churches and Monasteries | 84 |
6 Two Thirds of the Wealth of this World | 108 |
7 Democracy | 128 |
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2nd edn A. A. Vasiliev Alexios Alexios’s Andronicus Angelos Arabs army Asia Minor attack Augousteion Blachernae Bosporus buildings Byzan Byzantine Constantinople Byzantine emperors Byzantine empire Byzantine political Byzantium Byzantium Confronts capital cathedral of Hagia Christ Christian city’s column Comnena Constan Constantine VII Cyril Mango decoration dome E. R. A. Sewter empress Eudokia Euphrosyne fleet Forum of Constantine Fourteen Byzantine Rulers Fourth Crusade gold Golden Horn Greek Hagia Sophia Hippodrome History Holy Apostles icon imperial Isaac Istanbul Janin John Justinian Kommerkion Komnenos Laiou Land Walls Latin Leo the Deacon Liudprand of Cremona London merchants Metochites Michael Psellos monastery monks mosaic mosque Mourtzouphlos Nikephoros Niketas Choniates nople patriarch Porphyrogenitos Procopius reign relics Robert of Clari Roman Rome Russian saints Sea of Marmara Sea Walls ships siege stantinople statue stylites Theodore Theodosius Theophanes Confessor throne tinople tion trans twelfth century Venetians Venice Villehardouin Virgin visitors vols Cambridge