Hagia Sophia in Context: An Archaeological Re-Examination of the Cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople

Cover
Book Title
Contents
Preface
Terminology and conventions
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
	The Patriarchal complex
	The Hagia Sophia Project 2004–2018
	Methods and practical constraints
Chapter 2: The undiscovered church: Hagia Sophia before Justinian
	Introduction
	Fourth-century structures
	Fifth-century structures
	Features below the sixth-century church identified in other recent work
	Conclusion
Chapter 3: New light on Justinian’s Hagia Sophia
	Introduction
	Buttress piers, their external staircase towers and the corner staircases in the base of the dome
Chapter 4: Revealing the Byzantine cathedral: Hagia Sophia after Justinian
	Introduction
	The Skeuophylakion
	North-east and south-east vestibules
	The north-east ramp
	Post-sixth-century modifications to thePatriarchate
	Identifying the Large Hall and associatedstructures with the later textually-attestedadditions to the Patriarchal palace
	The Baptistery
	The buttresses
	The south-west buttress
	The south middle buttress
	The north middle buttress
	The north-east buttress
	The west flying buttresses
	The other buttresses
	Archaeology and liturgy after the sixth century
	Conclusion
Chapter 5: Sixth-century Hagia Sophia in its wider context
	Introduction
	Hagia Sophia in the context of surroundingstructures and landscape features
	Building Orthodoxy in sixth-centuryConstantinople
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