Hagia Sophia in Context
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78925-987-2 (ISBN)
The Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia has been a source of wonder and fascination since its sixth-century construction. It was the premier monument of the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, and remains one of the most recognisable symbols of modern Istanbul. Often seen as encapsulating Byzantine history and culture, the building has been the subject of much scholarly interest since the Renaissance. However, while almost all previous archaeological work has focussed on the church itself, the surrounding complex of ecclesiastical buildings has been largely neglected. The research project presented here (co-directed by the authors) is the first to focus on the archaeology of the immediate environs of the church in order to understand the complex as a whole.
Previously unrecorded material includes parts of the Patriarchal complex, from which the Orthodox Church was governed for almost a millennium, what may be the ‘Great Baptistery’ north of the church, and what are perhaps the first fragments of the fourth-century phase of the cathedral yet identified. The discovery of an unrecognised porch, surviving to its full height within the standing building, changes the known plan of the famous sixth-century church. This new information provides fresh evidence about the appearance and function of the complex, illustrating its similarities to, and dissimilarities from, Episcopal centers elsewhere in the Byzantine world. Combined with other archaeological sources, these discoveries enable us to place the sixth-century cathedral in its urban context and to reconsider what Hagia Sophia can tell us about the wider Byzantine world.
Ken Dark is Associate Professor in Archaeology and History at the University of Reading, where he was Director of the Research Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from 2001 until 2016. Between 1997 and 2004 he co-directed the British Museum-funded rescue archaeology program for Istanbul, published in 2013 by Oxbow as Constantinople: archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis. Jan Kostenec is a member of the Czech National Committee of Byzantine Studies and the Czech Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology. His main interests are Late Antique and Byzantine archaeology and architecture.
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Terminology and conventions_x000D_
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Chapter 1: Introduction_x000D_
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The Patriarchal complex_x000D_
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The Hagia Sophia Project 2004ÔÇô2018_x000D_
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Methods and practical constraints_x000D_
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Chapter 2: The undiscovered church: Hagia Sophia before Justinian_x000D_
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Fourth-century structures_x000D_
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Fifth-century structures_x000D_
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Features below the sixth-century church identified in other recent work_x000D_
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Conclusion_x000D_
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Chapter 3: New light on JustinianÔÇÖs Hagia Sophia_x000D_
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Buttress piers, their external staircase towers and the corner staircases in the base of the dome_x000D_
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The Vestibules_x000D_
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The access ramps_x000D_
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Newly recorded sixth-century decoration_x000D_
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Marble veneer on the church exterior_x000D_
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Structures southwest of the Justinianic church: the Patriarchal palace_x000D_
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Structures surrounding the Large Hall_x000D_
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The southwest vestibule of the church_x000D_
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The Baptistery south of the church_x000D_
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A large rectilinear structure north of the sixth-century church_x000D_
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Marble paving around the church and evidence for surrounding courtyards_x000D_
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Archaeology and liturgy in JustinianÔÇÖs church_x000D_
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Conclusion_x000D_
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Chapter 4: Revealing the Byzantine cathedral: Hagia Sophia after Justinian_x000D_
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Introduction_x000D_
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The Skeuophylakion_x000D_
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North-east and south-east vestibules_x000D_
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The north-east ramp_x000D_
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Post-sixth-century modifications to the Patriarchate_x000D_
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Identifying the Large Hall and associated structures with the later textually-attested additions to the Patriarchal palace_x000D_
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The Baptistery_x000D_
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The buttresses_x000D_
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The south-west buttress_x000D_
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The south middle buttress_x000D_
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The north middle buttress_x000D_
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The north-east buttress_x000D_
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The west flying buttresses_x000D_
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The remaining buttresses_x000D_
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Archaeology and liturgy after the sixth century_x000D_
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Conclusion_x000D_
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Chapter 5: Sixth-century Hagia Sophia in its wider context_x000D_
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Hagia Sophia in the context of surrounding structures and landscape features_x000D_
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Building Orthodoxy in sixth-century Constantinople_x000D_
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.05.2023 |
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| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 210 x 298 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78925-987-8 / 1789259878 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78925-987-2 / 9781789259872 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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