Master Builders of Byzantium

Master Builders of Byzantium
Title Master Builders of Byzantium PDF eBook
Author Robert Ousterhout
Publisher UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Pages 338
Release 2008-02
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9781934536032

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Eastern Medieval Architecture

Eastern Medieval Architecture
Title Eastern Medieval Architecture PDF eBook
Author Robert Ousterhout
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 528
Release 2019-08-26
Genre Architecture
ISBN 0190058404

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The rich and diverse architectural traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and adjacent regions are the subject of this book. Representing the visual residues of a "forgotten" Middle Ages, the social and cultural developments of the Byzantine Empire, the Caucasus, the Balkans, Russia, and the Middle East parallel the more familiar architecture of Western Europe. The book offers an expansive view of the architectural developments of the Byzantine Empire and areas under its cultural influence, as well as the intellectual currents that lie behind their creation. The book alternates chapters that address chronological or regionally-based developments with thematic studies that focus on the larger cultural concerns, as they are expressed in architectural form.

Architecture of the Sacred

Architecture of the Sacred
Title Architecture of the Sacred PDF eBook
Author Bonna D. Wescoat
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 467
Release 2014-10-13
Genre Architecture
ISBN 110737829X

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In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative spaces in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine civilizations. Collectively they demonstrate the multiple ways in which works of architecture and their settings were active agents in the ritual process. Architecture did not merely host events; rather, it magnified and elevated them, interacting with rituals facilitating the construction of ceremony. This book examines comparatively the ways in which ideas and situations generated by the interaction of place, built environment, ritual action, and memory contributed to the cultural formulation of the sacred experience in different religious faiths.

Private Religious Foundations in the Byzantine Empire

Private Religious Foundations in the Byzantine Empire
Title Private Religious Foundations in the Byzantine Empire PDF eBook
Author John Philip Thomas
Publisher Dumbarton Oaks
Pages 338
Release 1987
Genre History
ISBN 9780884021643

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Thomas examines the private ownership of ecclesiastical institutions to determine the nature and extent of private ownership of religious institutions in the Byzantine Empire. This includes churches, monasteries, and philanthropic institutions such as hospitals and orphanages, which were founded by private individuals and retained for personal administration independent of the public authorities of the state and church.

Byzantine Constantinople

Byzantine Constantinople
Title Byzantine Constantinople PDF eBook
Author Nevra Necipoğlu
Publisher BRILL
Pages 392
Release 2001
Genre History
ISBN 9789004116252

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This collection of papers on the city of Constantinople by a distinguished group of Byzantine historians, art historians, and archaeologists provides new perspectives as well as new evidence on the monuments, topography, social and economic life of the Byzantine imperial capital.

A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia

A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia
Title A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia PDF eBook
Author Robert G. Ousterhout
Publisher Dumbarton Oaks
Pages 510
Release 2005
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780884023104

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Based on four seasons of fieldwork, this book presents the results of the first systematic site survey of a region rich in material remains. From architecture to fresco painting, Cappadocia represents a previously untapped resource for the study of material culture and the settings of daily life within the Byzantine Empire.

Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul

Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul
Title Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul PDF eBook
Author John Freely
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 0
Release 2009-11-16
Genre Art
ISBN 9780521179058

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This book is about the Byzantine monuments of Istanbul, most notably, Haghia Sophia. The remains of the land and sea walls, the Hippodrome, imperial palaces, commemorative columns, reservoirs and cisterns, an aqueduct, a triumphal archway, a fortified port, and twenty churches are also described in chronological order in the context of their times. These "monuments" are viewed in relationship to the political, religious, social, economic, intellectual and artistic developments of the Byzantine dynasties.