Constantinople through the Ages

The Visible City from Its Foundation to Contemporary Istanbul

Diederik Burgersdijk, Fokke Gerritsen, Willemijn Waal (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-71097-9 (ISBN)

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This volume presents a kaleidoscopic journey through the long history of Constantinople, from its foundations to the present. Starting point is the ‘visible city’ and the ways in which the multi-layered past is still observable in Istanbul today.

Constantinople Through the Ages aims to map the long and rich history of Constantinople, from its foundations to the present. Starting point is the ‘visible city’; the ways in which continuity and change in history are still observable in present-day Istanbul. The contributors, each of them foremost experts in their fields, address the interaction between the different layers of time from various sources and perspectives. They explore how later inhabitants received and appropriated the legacy of their predecessors, and how the city’s tangible and intangible heritage has been perceived and (ab)used in both the past and the present.

Diederik Burgersdijk, PhD (2010), is Lecturer in Classics at Utrecht University, and Research Fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin, specialized in the Later Roman Empire. He has published extensively on Latin Literature and Roman History, with a special interest in the Constantinian Era. Fokke Gerritsen, PhD (2001), holds positions at Leiden University (as Netherlands Institute in Turkey Director) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research and publications focus on the prehistoric archaeology of Anatolia and on the significance of cultural heritage in contemporary Istanbul. Willemijn Waal, PhD (2010), is Associate Professor at Leiden University and currently serves as Director of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO). Her research focuses on Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Anatolia and the connections between West Asia and the Aegean. Contributors are: Ceren Abi, Diederik Burgersdijk, Buket Cengiz, Floris van den Eijnde, Fokke Gerritsen, Paolo Girardelli, Mark Humphries, Brian Johnson, Enno Maessen, Filippo Ronconi, Fabian Schulz, Rolf Strootman, Shaun Tougher, Nicola Verderame, Mariëtte Verhoeven, Joanita Vroom, Willemijn Waal, Richard Wittmann.

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Diederik Burgersdijk, Fokke Gerritsen, and Willemijn Waal

1 Byzantium’s Earliest History. Formation, Colonization, and Habitation of the Βοσπόριος ἄκρα

Floris van den Eijnde

2 The Shadow of Constantinople: the New Rome and the Old from Constantine to Constans II

Mark Humphries

3 The Bishops of Constantinople and the Opposing Occident: Gregory, Photios, and Rome

Fabian Schulz

4 Court Life in Byzantine Constantinople: the Age of the Macedonian Dynasty (867–1056)

Shaun Tougher

5 Visible Words. The Transmission of Classical Texts in Constantinople and Its Consequences on Byzantine Culture and Society in Light of Surviving Manuscripts and Literary Evidence

Filippo Ronconi

6 The Byzantine Churches of Constantinople: History, Transformation, and Heritage

Mariëtte Verhoeven

7 Next Stop, Constantinople: How a New Istanbul Metro Line Revealed Archaeological Treasures

Joanita Vroom

8 From Hippodromos to Atmeydanı: Continuity and Change in the Urban Layout of Constantinople after the Ottoman Conquest

Rolf Strootman

9 A Levantine Landscape: Galata and Pera

Paolo Girardelli

10 Re-branding Water: Imperial Fountains in the Hamidian Historical Peninsula

Nicola Verderame

11 Funerary Heritage of the Grand Champs des Morts: Evidence of Istanbul’s Communal Diversity in Feriköy

Brian Johnson and Richard Wittmann

12 Istanbul during the Allied Occupation: Ottoman and Allied Relationships to the City and Its Past (1918–1923)

Ceren Abi

13 The People of the Palimpsest City: Istanbul in Prose Fiction after the Twentieth Century

N. Buket Cengiz

14 The Beyoğlu District between Resilience and Conflict 1950–2010

Enno Maessen

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean ; 08
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-71097-3 / 9004710973
ISBN-13	978-90-04-71097-9 / 9789004710979
Zustand	Neuware