Constantinople from Byzantium to Istanbul
Author | : David Talbot Rice |
Publisher | : London : Elek Books |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Talbot Rice |
Publisher | : London : Elek Books |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Izabela Miszczak |
Publisher | : ASLAN Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2021-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 839565409X |
Byzantine Secrets of Istanbul is the book that tells the stories about a dozen of less-known historical structures located in Istanbul from the times when this city, as Constantinople, was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. The aim of this book is to take its readers on the journey of discovery and help them find the forgotten treasures of Byzantium, hidden among the narrow streets of the city. The chapters can be read separately, but they are arranged chronologically. The selection of the places was inspired by the wish of diversity, so you can read about churches, columns, cisterns, and palaces. If you happen to have a day or three to spend in the search of the Byzantine secrets of Turkey's largest city, this is just the beginning.
Author | : John Freely |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-11-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521179058 |
This book is about the Byzantine monuments of Istanbul, most notably, Haghia Sophia. The remains of the land and sea walls, the Hippodrome, imperial palaces, commemorative columns, reservoirs and cisterns, an aqueduct, a triumphal archway, a fortified port, and twenty churches are also described in chronological order in the context of their times. These "monuments" are viewed in relationship to the political, religious, social, economic, intellectual and artistic developments of the Byzantine dynasties.
Author | : Bettany Hughes |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 709 |
Release | : 2017-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0306825856 |
Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For much of its history it was the very center of the world, known simply as "The City," but, as Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city, but a global story. In this epic new biography, Hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey from the Neolithic to the present, through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities--exploring the ways that Istanbul's influence has spun out to shape the wider world. Hughes investigates what it takes to make a city and tells the story not just of emperors, viziers, caliphs, and sultans, but of the poor and the voiceless, of the women and men whose aspirations and dreams have continuously reinvented Istanbul. Written with energy and animation, award-winning historian Bettany Hughes deftly guides readers through Istanbul's rich layers of history. Based on meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, this captivating portrait of the momentous life of Istanbul is visceral, immediate, and authoritative -- narrative history at its finest.
Author | : Ruth Tenzer Feldman |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0761340262 |
How did the loss of one city change the history of Europe? In the Middle Ages, Constantinople’s perfect geographic location—positioned along a land trade route between Europe and Asia as well as on a strategic seaway from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean— made the city extremely desirous, and as a result, prone to attack. Under the control of the Roman and Byzantine Empires, Constantinople became known as "the Eye of the World," a center of government, trade, art, religion, and learning, and was even more desirous. Rulers built three sets of walls to protect Constantinople from attacks by Asiatic tribes. But the city’s fall to the Turkish Ottomans in 1453 marked the official end of the Byzantine Empire—and the end of the Middle Ages. Learn how the fall of Constantinople became one of history’s most pivotal moments.
Author | : Philip Mansel |
Publisher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2011-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1848546475 |
Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital of Constantinople - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family. In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love affair with the city that lasted until 1924, when the last Caliph hurriedly left on the Orient Express. For almost five centuries Constantinople, with its enormous racial and cultural diversity, was the centre of the dramatic and often depraved story of an extraordinary dynasty.
Author | : Jonathan Harris |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2009-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826430864 |
This book examines the intriguing interaction between the spiritual and the political whilst reconstructs the awe-inspiring city in its heyday of 1200.
Author | : Çi_dem Kafescio_lu |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0271027762 |
"Studies the reconstruction of Byzantine Constantinople as the capital city of the Ottoman empire following its capture in 1453, delineating the complex interplay of socio-political, architectural, visual, and literary processes that underlay the city's transformation"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Michael Angold |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2014-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317880528 |
The fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 marked the end of a thousand years of the Christian Roman Empire. Thereafter, world civilisation began a process of radical change. The West came to identify itself as Europe; the Russians were set on the path of autocracy; the Ottomans were transformed into a world power while the Greeks were left exiles in their own land. The loss of Constantinople created a void. How that void was to be filled is the subject of this book. Michael Angold examines the context of late Byzantine civilisation and the cultural negotiation which allowed the city of Constantinople to survive for so long in the face of Ottoman power. He shows how the devastating impact of its fall lay at the centre of a series of interlocking historical patterns which marked this time of decisive change for the late medieval world. This concise and original study will be essential reading for students and scholars of Byzantine and late medieval history, as well as anyone with an interest in this significant turning point in world history.
Author | : Nevra Necipoğlu |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004116252 |
This collection of papers on the city of Constantinople by a distinguished group of Byzantine historians, art historians, and archaeologists provides new perspectives as well as new evidence on the monuments, topography, social and economic life of the Byzantine imperial capital.