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Roman Constantinople in Byzantine Perspective
Paul Magdalino
其他書名
The Memorial and Aesthetic Rediscovery of Constantine’s Beautiful City, from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
出版BRILL, 2024-06-03
主題History / GeneralHistory / Ancient / GeneralHistory / Europe / GeneralHistory / Europe / Medieval
ISBN90047007659789004700765
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=k3cMEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.