The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople The Cross-Cultural Biography of a Mediterranean Monument
Book contents
- The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople
- The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration and Naming Conventions
- Selected Timeline of the Triumphal Column of Justinian and Its International Reverberations
- Map of Constantinople
- Introduction
- 1 Justinian’s Entry into Constantinople: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered
- 2 The Making of Justinian’s Forum
- 3 Defying a Defining Witness: the Bronze Horseman and the Buildings (De Aedificiis) of Prokopios
- 4 The Horseman of Baghdad Responds to the Horseman of Constantinople
- 5 Soothing Imperial Anxieties: Theophilos and the Restoration of Justinian’s Crown
- 6 Debating Justinian’s Merits in the Tenth Century
- 7 The Bronze Horseman and a Dark Hour for Humanity
- 8 The Horseman Becomes Heraclius: crusading Narratives of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
- 9 From Exile in Nicaea to Restoration of Constantinople
- 10 A Learned Dialogue across the Ages: Pachymeres Confronts Prokopios
- 11 Orb-Session: Constantinople’s Future in the Bronze Horseman’s Hand
- 12 Justinian’s Column and the Antiquarian Gaze: a Centuries-Old “Secret” Exposed
- 13 A Timeless Ideal: Constantinople in Slavonic Imagination of the Fourteenth–Fifteenth Centuries
- 14 The Horseman Meets Its End
- 15 Horse as Historia, Byzantium as Allegory
- 16 Shadowy Past and Menacing Future
- 17 After the Fall: the Bronze Horseman and the Eternal Tsar’grad
- Postscript: the Horseman’s Debut in Print
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 April 2021
Book contents
- The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople
- The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration and Naming Conventions
- Selected Timeline of the Triumphal Column of Justinian and Its International Reverberations
- Map of Constantinople
- Introduction
- 1 Justinian’s Entry into Constantinople: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered
- 2 The Making of Justinian’s Forum
- 3 Defying a Defining Witness: the Bronze Horseman and the Buildings (De Aedificiis) of Prokopios
- 4 The Horseman of Baghdad Responds to the Horseman of Constantinople
- 5 Soothing Imperial Anxieties: Theophilos and the Restoration of Justinian’s Crown
- 6 Debating Justinian’s Merits in the Tenth Century
- 7 The Bronze Horseman and a Dark Hour for Humanity
- 8 The Horseman Becomes Heraclius: crusading Narratives of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
- 9 From Exile in Nicaea to Restoration of Constantinople
- 10 A Learned Dialogue across the Ages: Pachymeres Confronts Prokopios
- 11 Orb-Session: Constantinople’s Future in the Bronze Horseman’s Hand
- 12 Justinian’s Column and the Antiquarian Gaze: a Centuries-Old “Secret” Exposed
- 13 A Timeless Ideal: Constantinople in Slavonic Imagination of the Fourteenth–Fifteenth Centuries
- 14 The Horseman Meets Its End
- 15 Horse as Historia, Byzantium as Allegory
- 16 Shadowy Past and Menacing Future
- 17 After the Fall: the Bronze Horseman and the Eternal Tsar’grad
- Postscript: the Horseman’s Debut in Print
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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- The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in ConstantinopleThe Cross-Cultural Biography of a Mediterranean Monument, pp. xvii - xixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021