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Describing Constantinople

Building the City 1. Constantine

Texts

Eusebius, The History of the Church Books 8-10 in Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers

Eusebius, Life of Constantine (NPNF)

Eusebius In Praise of Constantine (NPNF)

Lactantius, On the Deaths of the Persecutors (trans.. J. Creed, 1984)

Zosimus, New History (the pagan viewpoint)

'Constantinus Byzantinus, the life of Constantine' trans. F. Beetham in S. Lieu and D. Montserrat edd., From Constantine to Julian (London, 1996) 97-146

Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History II.3

Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae ed O. Seeck, Notitia Dignitatum (Berlin, 1876)

The Palace

W. Jobst, B. Erdal, C. Gurtner, Istanbul: das  grosse byzantinische Palastmosaik. (Vienna, 1998)

Discussions

  • J. Burckhardt, The Age of Constantine the Great (1852, translated 1960)
  • N. Baynes, Constantine the Great and the Christian Church (1929, revised 1972)
  • A. H. M. Jones, Constantine and the conversion of Europe (London 1948)
  • Ramsay MacMullen, Constantine (1969)
  • Dagron, G. Naissance d'une capitale (Paris, 1974).
  • T. D. Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius (Harvard 1981)
  • R. Krautheimer, Three Christian Capitals (1982)
  • M. DiMaio, J. Zeuge and N. Zotov, 'Ambiguitas Constantiniana : the caeleste signum Dei of Constatnine the Great', Byzantion 58 (1988), 333-60.
  • Garth Fowden, 'Nicagoras of Athens and the Lateran obelisk', JHS 107 (1987), 51-7
  • id., 'Obelisks between polytheists and Christians: Julian, ep. 59', in Polyphonia Byzantina: Studies in honour of W. J. Aerts (1991)
  • id, 'Constantine's porphyry column: the earliest literary allusion', JRS 81 (1991), 119-131
  • T. Grünewald, Constantinus Maximus Augustus: Herrschaftspropaganda in der zeitgenuössischen Uberlieferung (1992)
  • J. W. Drijvers, Helena Augusta: the mother of Constantine the Great, and the legend of her finding of the True Cross (Leiden, 1992)
  • H. A. Pohlsander, The Emperor Constantine (London, 1996)
  • S. N. C. Lieu and D. Montserrat edd., Constantine, History, Historiography and Legend (London, 1998)
    C. M. Odahl, Constantine and the Christian empire (London, 2004)
    R. Ross Holloway, Constantine and Rome (Yale, 2004)
  • Sarah Bassett, The urban image of late antique Constantinople (Cambridge, 2004)
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