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8: - Imperial Constantinople

from Part III - Urban Experiences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2022

By
Paul Magdalino
Edited by
Sarah Bassett
Sarah Bassett
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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Summary

Chapter 8, “Imperial Constantinople,” maps the imperial presence in Constantinople’s urban and suburban space during its lifetime as a Roman capital, looking at the space reserved to the emperor and the court hierarchy, at satellite residences of the imperial hub, and at the use and politicization of public space

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Great PalaceBlachernae PalaceAristocracyBook of Ceremonies
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The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople , pp. 135 - 149
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Bauer, F. A., ed., Visualisierung von Herrschaft: Frühmittelalterliche Residenzen – Gestalt und Zeremoniell (Istanbul, 2006).Google Scholar
Constantine Porphyrogennetos, Book of Ceremonies, ed. with French translation and commentary by G. Dagron, D. Feissel, B. Flusin, Constantin VII Porphyrogénète, Le Livre des cérémonies, 5 vols (Paris 2020); ed Reiske, J. J. (Bonn, 1829), reproduced with English translation and same pagination by A. Moffatt and M. Tall, 2 vols. (Canberra, 2012).Google Scholar
Dagron, G. Emperor and Priest: The Imperial Office in Byzantium (Cambridge, 2003).Google Scholar
Ebersolt, J. Le Grand Palais de Constantinople et le Livre des Cérémonies (Paris, 1910).Google Scholar
Featherstone, M., Spieser, J.-M., Tanman, G., and Wulf-Rheidt, U., eds., The Emperor’s House. Palaces from Augustus to the Age of Absolutism (Berlin-Boston, 2015).Google Scholar
Guilland, R. Études de topographie de Constantinople byzantine, 2 vols (Amsterdam, 1969).Google Scholar
Macrides, R., Munitiz, J. A., Angelov, D., Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies (Farnham, 2013).Google Scholar
Magdalino, P. ‘Court Society and Aristocracy’, in Social History of Byzantium, ed. Haldon, J. (Chichester, 2009), 212–33.Google Scholar
Mango, C. The Brazen House: A Study of the Vestibule of the Imperial Palace of Constantinople (Copenhagen, 1959).Google Scholar
Mango, C. ‘The Palace of the Boukoleon’, CahArch 45 (1997): 41–50.Google Scholar
Mullett, M. and Ousterhout, R., eds., The Holy Apostles: A Lost Monument, a Forgotten Project, and the Presentness of the Past (Washington, DC, 2020).Google Scholar
Ödekan, A., Akyürek, E., and Necipoğlu, N., eds., The Byzantine Court: Source of Power and Culture (Istanbul, 2013).Google Scholar
Pitarakis, B., ed., Hippodrom/Atmeydanı: İstanbul’un Tarih Sahnesi [Hippodrome/Atmeydani: A Stage for Istanbul’s History], 2 vols. (Istanbul, 2010).Google Scholar

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