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6: - Constantinople: Building and Maintenance

from Part II - Practical Matters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2022

Sarah Bassett
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Indiana University
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Chapter 6, “Constantinople: Building and Maintenance,” considers the built environment of Constantinople as a thermodynamic system, examining such issues as the supply of materials, construction legislation, and architectural techniques in the context of three basic categories: urban infrastructure, public monuments, and vernacular architecture.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Bardill, J., Brickstamps of Constantinople, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2004).Google Scholar
Crow, J., “The Infrastructure of a Great City: Earth, Walls and Water in Late Antique Constantinople,” in Technology in transition A.D. 300–650, ed. Lavan, L., Zanini, E., and Sarantis, A. (Leiden and Boston, 2007), 251–85.Google Scholar
Dark, K. R. and Özgümüş, F.. Constantinople: Archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis (Oxford, 2013).Google Scholar
Ousterhout, R., Master Builders of Byzantium (Princeton, 2000).Google Scholar
Saliou, C., “Construire en capitale: la loi de Zénon sur la construction privée à Constantinople (CJ VIII, 10, 12), une relecture,” in Constantinople réelle et imaginaire: autour de l’oeuvre de Gilbert Dagron (TM 22.1), ed. Morrisson, C. and Sodini, J.-P. (Paris, 2018), 79102.Google Scholar
Zanini, E., “Materiali e tecniche costruttive degli edifici costantinopolitani in età paleologa: un approccio archeologico,” in L’arte di Bisanzio e l’Italia al tempo dei Paleologi 1261–1453, ed. Iacobini, A. and della Valle, M. (Rome, 1999), 301–20.Google Scholar

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