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The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople

By Sarah Bassett

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
052182723X, 9780521827232
Open Library ID
OL22604434M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
30 MB (31372058 bytes)
Pages
315\315
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

From its foundation in the fourth century to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, the city of Constantinople boasted a collection of antiquities unrivaled by any city of the medieval world. This book reconstructs the collection from the time of the city's founding by Constantine the Great through the sixth century reign of the emperor Justinian. Drawing on medieval literary sources and graphic and archaeological material, it identifies and describes the antiquities that were known to have stood in the city's public spaces.

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