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Constantinople as center and crossroad
- Title
- Constantinople as center and crossroad / edited by Olof Heilo and Ingela Nilsson.
- Publication
- [Beyoglu] : Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 2019.
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- Description
- 237 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.
- Summary
- The city occupying the narrow peninsula between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara has gone by various names throughout history: Byzantion, Constantinople, Istanbul ... In spite of the popular imagination envisioning its history in terms of sharp breaks and divisions between different religions, cultures, and empires, the city often shows a remarkable continuity in its geopolitical role as a zone of interaction and nexus between seas and continents. As the capital city of three empires spanning centuries, it demonstrates the political continuity of the Late Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman empires. From an economic perspective, goods and gifts, people and groups moved past and through it alongside more abstract cultural artifacts such as stories and iconographies. This book transcends the geographical and historical divides that pervade the perception of the city by focusing less on the city as such than the space it occupies, the wider areas it connects, and the agents or actants that have passed through it from the Late Antique to the Early Modern era.
- Series Statement
- Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul Transactions ; Vol. 23
- Uniform Title
- Transactions (Svenska forskningsinstitutet i Istanbul) ; v. 23.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments ; OLOF HEILO & INGELA NILSSON WITH RAGNAR HEDLUND, Constantinople as Crossroad: Some introductory remarks ; RAGNAR HEDLUND, Byzantion, Zeuxippos, and Constantinople: The emergence of an imperial city ; GRIGORI SIMEONOV, Crossing the Straits in the Search for a Cure: Travelling to Constantinople in the Miracles of its healer saints ; FEDIR ANDROSHCHUK, When and How Were Byzantine Miliaresia Brought to Scandinavia? Constantinople and the dissemination of silver coinage outside the empire ; ANNALINDEN WELLER, Mediating the Eastern Frontier: Classical models of warfare in the work of Nikephoros Ouranos ; CLAUDIA RAPP, A Medieval Cosmopolis: Constantinople and its foreigners ; MABI ANGAR, Disturbed Orders: Architectural representations in Saint Mary Peribleptos as seen by Ruy González de Clavijo ; ISABEL KIMMELFIELD, Argyropolis: A diachronic approach to the study of Constantinople{u2019}s suburbs ; MILOŠ PETROVIĆ,Belgrade Toponyms along the Bosphorus: From the Belgrade Forest to the Belgrade Gate ; FEDERICA GIGANTE, {u2018}New and Rare Items Coming from India and Turkey{u2019}: Changing perceptions of Islamic artefacts in Early Modern Italy ; LEE BEAUDOEN, A Mediterraneanizing Approach: Constantinople as a nexus.
- ISBN
- 9789185333981
- 9185333980
- OCLC
- on1127980756
- 1127980756
- SCSB-14447188
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries