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Title

The Byzantine court : source of power and culture : papers from the Second International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium, Istanbul 21-23 June 2010 / edited by Ayla Ödekan, Nevra Necipoğlu, Engin Akyürek.

Author

Uluslararası Sevgi Gönül Bizans Araştırmaları Sempozyumu (2nd : 2010 : Istanbul, Turkey)

Publication

Istanbul : Koç University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Brubaker, Leslie.
• Ödekan, Ayla, 1940-
• Necipoğlu, Nevra
• Akyürek, Engin, 1957-
• Berger, Albrecht, 1957-
• Niewöhner, Philipp.
• Redford, Scott.
• Magdalino, Paul.
• Walker, Alicia.
• Herrin, Judith.
• Ousterhout, Robert G.
• Jacoby, David, 1928-
• Maguire, Henry, 1943-
• Parani, Maria G.
• Durak, Koray Sevki.
• Macrides, R. J.
• Mullett, Margaret.
• Karpozilos, Apostolos D.
• Mavroudi, Maria V.

Description

xvi, 242 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 25 cm.

Summary

The designation of Istanbul by the European Union's Council of Ministers as the European Capital of Culture for 2010 was instrumental in the decision to focus on Constantinople in the Second International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium, which was held on 21-23 June 2010 at the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. The particular theme of the symposium, "The Byzantine Court: Source of Power and Culture," was selected, on the other hand, in view of Constantinople's essential role as Byzantine imperial capital soon after its foundation by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great on 11 May 330. The aim of the symposium was to evaluate, from administrative, political, social, economic, and religious perspectives, the impact of the political power that spread out from the Great Palace and, as of the twelfth century, from the Blachernai Palace to the rest of the empire, and to investigate the reflections of this power in the cultural sphere. Presented in this volume are thirty out of the forty papers delivered at the Second International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium. The papers have been grouped under the following four section headings: "Byzantine Palace Architecture," "The Byzantine Court as the Center of Imperial Power," "Ceremonies at the Court and in the City," and "Court Culture and Visual Arts."

Alternative Title

Papers from the Second International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium, Istanbul 21-23 June 2010

Subject

• Civilization, Medieval > Congresses
• Byzantine Empire > Civilization > Congresses
• Byzantine Empire > Court and courtiers > History > Congresses
• Byzantine Empire > History > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Opening speech / Ayla Ödekan -- 1. Byzantine palace architecture. The Byzantine court as a physical space / Albrecht Berger ; Excavations at the Byzantine Great Palace (Palatium Magnum) in the area of the Old Sultanahmet Jail / Asuman Denker ; Water and the Great Palace in Constantinople / James Crow ; The rotunda at the Myrelaion in Constantinople: pilaster capitals, mosaics, and brick stamps / Philipp Niewöhner ; The architecture of aristocratic palaces in Constantinople in written sources / Peter Schreiner ; Constantinople, Konya, conical kiosks, cultural confluence / Scott Redford ; The New Palace of Mehmed Fatih and its Byzantine legacy / Simon Malmberg -- 2. The Byzantine court as the center of imperial power. Power building and power space in Byzantine Constantinople: the ethics and dynamics of construction and conservation / Paul Magdalino ; Palatial gardens as symbols of imperial power / Antony R. Littlewood ;
• The emperor as cosmopolitan ruler: imaging middle Byzantine imperial power / Alicia Walker ; The Great Palace and the iconoclast emperors / Marie-France Auzépy ; Female space at the Byzantine court / Judith Herrin ; Daily life at the Blachernai Palace: the servants of the imperial bedchamber (1261-1354) / Frouke Schrijver ; Emblems of power in Palaiologan Constantinople / Robert G. Ousterhout ; Between the imperial court and the western maritime powers: the impact of naturalizations on the economy of late Byzantine Constantinople / David Jacoby ; Circulation of people between the Byzantine and Ottoman courts / Nevra Necipoğlu -- 3. Ceremonies at the court and in the city. Art, ceremony, and spiritual authority at the Byzantine court / Henry Maguire ; Processions and public spaces in early and middle Byzantine Constantinople / Leslie Brubaker ;
• From the Hippodrome to the reception halls of the Great Palace: acclamations and dances in the service of imperial ideology / Brigitte Pitarakis ; De cerimoniis: the revival of antiquity in the Great Palace and the 'Macedonian renaissance' / J. Michael Featherstone ; Dressed to kill: middle Byzantine military ceremonial attire / Maria G. Parani ; Diplomacy as performance: power politics and resistance between the Byzantine and the Early Medieval Islamic courts / Koray Durak ; Inside and outside the palace: ceremonies in the Constantinople of the Palaiologoi / Ruth Macrides -- 4. Court culture and visual arts. Did Byzantium have a court literature? / Margaret Mullett ; History writing as political propaganda in late Byzantium / Apostolos Karpozilos ; The school in Byzantium: structure and problems / Athanasios Markopoulos ; Translations from Greek into Arabic at the court of Mehmed the Conqueror / Maria Mavroudi ;
• Antiquarianism and revivalism in late Byzantine court culture and visual arts / Ivana Jevtić ; Cultural aspects of power in the Byzantine Empire: the court as patron of metal art objects / Meryem Acara Eser ; Byzantine lead seals representing the Kanikleios of the imperial palace / Vera Bulgurlu -- Closing speech / Ayla Ödekan.

ISBN

• 9786055250171
• 6055250179

OCLC

• 857289706
• SCSB-10813733

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library