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245 10 a| Roman Constantinople in Byzantine perspective :b| the memorial and aesthetic rediscovery of Constantine's beautiful city, from late antiquity to the Renaissance /c| by Paul Magdalino.;

264 1 a| Leiden ;a| Boston :b| Brill,c| [2024];

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490 1 a| Brill research perspectives in Byzantine studies,x| 2590-1652;

500 a| Abstract: "Literate Byzantines made sense of the wonder and spectacle that was Constantinople both by researching the legendary memories that gave meaning to the city's cultural heritage, and by explaining the aesthetic appeal of the urban ensemble, which was known from the beginning as Constantine's 'beautiful city'. At first, the memorial mode predominated, finding expression first in a now lost epic narrative written c.500 and then in a bureaucratic research culture that culminated in an encyclopaedic gazetteer (989-990). Thereafter, commemoration switched to the aesthetic mode, developing a rhetorical vision of the city as a theatre of cosmic excellence. Constantinople finally met its literary match after 1305, almost a thousand years after its foundation, in the monumental Byzantios of Theodore Metochites."--Page 1.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-169) and index.;

505 0 a| Historical Research on Constantinople, 330-600 -- Memorial Literature and Research Culture, 6th-10th Centuries -- Cultural Heritage and Tourist Disinformation 1000-1453: from Bureaucratic to Scientific Antiquarianism -- The Rhetorical Rediscovery of Constantinople, 10th-13th Centuries -- The Byzantios of Theodore Metochites and Its Legacy;

520 a| "This book studies the research perspective in which the literary inhabitants of Late Antique and medieval Constantinople remembered its past and conceptualised its existence as a Greek city that was the political capital of a Christian Roman state. Initial reactions to Constantine's foundation noted its novel Christian orientation, but the memorial mode of writing about the city that developed from the sixth century recollected the traditional civic cultural heritage that Constantinople claimed both as the New Rome, and as the continuation of ancient Byzantion. This research culture increasingly became the preserve of the imperial bureaucracy, and focused on the city's sculptured monuments as bearers of eschatological meaning. Yet from the tenth century, writers progressively preferred to define the wonder and spectacle of Constantinople in the aesthetic mode of urban praise inherited from late antiquity, developing the notion of the city as a cosmic theatre of excellence."--c| Publisher's website.;

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Roman Constantinople in Byzantine perspective : the memorial and aesthetic rediscovery of Constantine's beautiful city, from late antiquity to the Renaissance / by Paul Magdalino.

Author/creator	Magdalino, Paul author.
Format	Book
Publication	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]
Copyright Date	©2024
Description	vi, 177 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Metochites, Theodoros, 1270-1332. Byzantine literature. Cultural property--Turkey. --Istanbul. Istanbul (Turkey)--Historiography. Istanbul (Turkey)--History. --To 1453.

Series	Brill research perspectives in Byzantine studies, 2590-1652 Brill research perspectives. Byzantine studies. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents	Historical Research on Constantinople, 330-600 -- Memorial Literature and Research Culture, 6th-10th Centuries -- Cultural Heritage and Tourist Disinformation 1000-1453: from Bureaucratic to Scientific Antiquarianism -- The Rhetorical Rediscovery of Constantinople, 10th-13th Centuries -- The Byzantios of Theodore Metochites and Its Legacy
Abstract	"This book studies the research perspective in which the literary inhabitants of Late Antique and medieval Constantinople remembered its past and conceptualised its existence as a Greek city that was the political capital of a Christian Roman state. Initial reactions to Constantine's foundation noted its novel Christian orientation, but the memorial mode of writing about the city that developed from the sixth century recollected the traditional civic cultural heritage that Constantinople claimed both as the New Rome, and as the continuation of ancient Byzantion. This research culture increasingly became the preserve of the imperial bureaucracy, and focused on the city's sculptured monuments as bearers of eschatological meaning. Yet from the tenth century, writers progressively preferred to define the wonder and spectacle of Constantinople in the aesthetic mode of urban praise inherited from late antiquity, developing the notion of the city as a cosmic theatre of excellence."-- Publisher's website.
General note	Abstract: "Literate Byzantines made sense of the wonder and spectacle that was Constantinople both by researching the legendary memories that gave meaning to the city's cultural heritage, and by explaining the aesthetic appeal of the urban ensemble, which was known from the beginning as Constantine's 'beautiful city'. At first, the memorial mode predominated, finding expression first in a now lost epic narrative written c.500 and then in a bureaucratic research culture that culminated in an encyclopaedic gazetteer (989-990). Thereafter, commemoration switched to the aesthetic mode, developing a rhetorical vision of the city as a theatre of cosmic excellence. Constantinople finally met its literary match after 1305, almost a thousand years after its foundation, in the monumental Byzantios of Theodore Metochites."--Page 1.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-169) and index.
ISBN	9789004698895 (paperback)
ISBN	9004698892 (paperback)
ISBN	9789004700765 (ebook)
ISBN	9004700765 (ebook)

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