Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople
- The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Place and Its People
- 1: Before Constantinople
- 2: Urban Development and Decline, Fourth–Fifteenth Centuries
- 3: The People of Constantinople
- Part II Practical Matters
- Part III Urban Experiences
- Part IV Institutions and Activities
- Part V Encountering Constantinople
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
- References
2: - Urban Development and Decline, Fourth–Fifteenth Centuries
from Part I - The Place and Its People
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2022
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople
- The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Place and Its People
- 1: Before Constantinople
- 2: Urban Development and Decline, Fourth–Fifteenth Centuries
- 3: The People of Constantinople
- Part II Practical Matters
- Part III Urban Experiences
- Part IV Institutions and Activities
- Part V Encountering Constantinople
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
- References
Summary
Chapter 2, “Urban Development and Decline, Fourth–Fifteenth Centuries,” tracks the development of the city’s infrastructure and monumental public architecture from the period of its fourth-century foundation to its fifteenth-century collapse, noting periods of prosperity and decline together with the transformation from an ancient to a medieval urban center.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople , pp. 33 - 49Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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Dagron, G., Naissance d’une capitale: Constantinople et ses institutions de 330 à 451 (Paris, 1974).Google Scholar
Magdalino, P., “Constantine V and the Middle Age of Constantinople,” in Magdalino, P., Studies on the History and Topography of Byzantine Constantinople (Aldershot, 2007), no. IV.Google Scholar
Matthews, J., Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae, in Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity, ed. Grig, L. and Kelly, G. (Oxford, 2015), 81–115.Google Scholar