The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
	Historiographical Considerations: Organizing the Narrative
	Discovering and Writing Constantinopolitan History
	Textual Study and Constantinopolitan History
	Notes
Part I The Place and Its People
	1: Before Constantinople
		The Situation and Character of Greek Byzantion
		Origins and Early History
		The Hellenistic and Roman City
		Further Reading
		Notes
	2: Urban Development and Decline, Fourth-Fifteenth Centuries
		Ancient Byzantium
		The City of Constantine, 330-79
		Pagan and Christian Monuments
		Expanding the City
		The City of Theodosios, 379-450
		The New Land and Sea Walls
		The Notitia urbis Constantinopolitanae
		The Heyday of Constantinople
		The Dark Ages
		The Second Age of Prosperity
		The Latin Occupation
		Late Byzantine Constantinople
		Further Reading
		Notes
	3: The People of Constantinople
		Numbers
		A City of Immigrants
		Questions of Status: Insiders and Outsiders
		Ethnicity
		Conclusions
		Further Reading
		Notes
Part II Practical Matters
	4: Waters for a Capital: Hydraulic Infrastructure and Use in Byzantine Constantinople
		A View from Baghdad
		Previous Research
		Water and the Growth of a Great City
		Water in the City
		An Aqueduct of Justinian?
		After the Dry Years
		Water in Medieval Constantinople
		Conclusion
		Further Reading
		Notes
	5: The Supply of Food to Constantinople
		The Capital of an Eastern Mediterranean Empire
		The Capital of an Aegean Empire
		Markets, Labor, Status
		A Capital without an Empire
		Continuities
		Further Reading
		Notes
	6: Constantinople: Building and Maintenance
		A Subject of Study, a Point of View, and a Method
		Infrastructure Projects, Public Monuments, Vernacular Architecture
		Legislation
		Construction
		Conclusions
		Further Reading
		Notes
	7: The Defence of Constantinople
		Further Reading
		Notes
Part III Urban Experiences
	8: Imperial Constantinople
		Imperial Palaces
			The Great Palace
			The Blachernai Palace
			Other Imperial Palaces in the City and Suburbs
			Urban Outposts of Imperial Power
				The Prefectures
				The Houses of the Imperial Aristocracy
				A Civic Theatre of Imperial Power
				Imperial and Sacred Space
		Further Reading
		Notes
	9: Residential Constantinople
		Literary Sources
			Terminology
			Imperial Residences
			Elite Residences
			Non-elite Residences
			Monasteries
			Jewish Residences
			Merchant Quarters
		Archaeological Evidence
			Elite Residences
		Imperial Residences
		Further Reading
		Notes
	10: Commercial Constantinople
		Late Antiquity, Fourth through Seventh Centuries
		An Economic Powerhouse, Seventh through Twelfth Centuries
			Controlled Development, Ninth and Tenth Centuries
			An Expanding Market, Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
		Part of a Larger Whole, Thirteenth through Fifteenth Centuries
		Further Reading
		Notes
	11: Sacred Dimensions: Church Building and Ecclesiastical Practice
		Church Architecture in Constantinople
		Architecture and Liturgy in Late Antique Constantinople
		Medieval Developments
		Burials and Commemorations
		Beyond Architecture and Liturgy
		The Church Building as a Theological Abstraction
		Conclusion
		Further Reading
		Notes
	12: Sacred Dimensions: Constantinopolitan Monasticism
		Early Period: Fourth through Sixth Centuries
		Seventh through Ninth Centuries
		Tenth through Twelfth Centuries
		Further Reading
		Notes
	13: Sacred Dimensions: Death and Burial
		Further Reading
		Notes
Part IV Institutions and Activities
	14: The Administration of Constantinople
		Beginnings: From Anthypatos (Proconsul) to Eparch of the City
		Early Administration: Fourth through Seventh Centuries
		Justinian I (527-65) and the Sixth Century
		Seventh through Tenth Centuries: The Eparch as 'Pater Poleos'
		Evolution and Change: The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
		The Palaiologan Era: Thirteenth through Fifteenth Centuries
		Conclusion
		Further Reading
		Notes
	15: Philanthropic Institutions
		Terminology
		Origins
		From Arianism to Orthodoxy
		The Orphanage of Constantinople
		The Leprosarium and Ptocheia
		Hospitals (Xenones and Gerokomeia)
		Conclusion
		Further Reading
		Notes
	16: Schools and Learning
		Schools and Teachers
		After School
		Further Reading
		Notes
	17: Entertainment
		Rhythms of Urban Life
		Processions
		Hippodrome
		On Stage
		Diversions of Daily Life
		At Home
		Further Reading
		Notes
Part V Encountering Constantinople
	18: Medieval Travellers to Constantinople Wonders and Wonder
		Sources
		Visitors
		Motives
		The Sites
		Conclusion
		Further Reading
		Notes
	19: Pilgrimage to Constantinople
		Further Reading
		Notes
	20: Encountering and Inventing Constantinople in Early Modern Europe
		Further Reading
		Notes
	21: Byzantium in Early Modern Istanbul
		1455: Rupture and Ruin Portrayed
		Structures of Space and Thought
		Translation, Myth Making, and Facets of Antiquarian Thought
		Tangible Past: Monument, Spolia, Replica
		Further Reading
		Notes
Bibliography
Index