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Describing Constantinople

Viewing the city

The local view: popular

Texts

Hagiography

The life and conduct of our holy father Andrew the Fool for the sake of Christ, ed. and tr; L. Rydén, 2 vols. (Uppsala 1995)

On the dating of the Life of Andrew the Fool, see
Cyril Mango, in Rivista di studi bizantini e slavi 2 (1982), John Wortley, in Byzantion 43 (1973), Lennart Rydén, in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 32 (1978)

The miracles of St. Artemios : a collection of miracle stories by an anonymous author of seventh century Byzantium translation and commentary by V. Crisafulli and J. Nesbitt (Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1997)

Patria

Parastaseis syntomai chronikai. Ed. and trans. Averil Cameron and Judith Herrin, Constantinople in the early eighth century (Leiden 1984).

Preger, T. (ed.) Scriptores Originum Constantinopolitanarum (Leipzig, 1901-7).

Discussions

·  P. Marichal, 'La construction de Sainte Sophie dans l'anonyme grec (Xe siècle?) et les versions vieux-russes'. Byzantinoslavica 21 (1961), 238-59

·  Ihor Sevcenko, 'Constantinople viewed from the Eastern provinces in the Middle Byzantine period', Harvard Ukrainian studies 3-4, (1979-1980), 712-747.

H. Maguire,  'Truth and Convention in Byzantine Descriptions of Works of Art',  DOP,  28 (1974), 113-40
  Art and Eloquence in Byzantium (Princeton, 1981)
“The profane aesthetic in Byzantine Art and Literature, DOP 53 (1999)

·  G. Dagron, Constantinople imaginaire : etudes sur le recueil des 'Patria'. (Paris, 1984)

·  A. Berger, Untersuchungen zu den Patria Konstantinupoleos (Bonn, 1987)

·  A. Khazdhan. '"Constantin imaginaire": Byzantine legends of the ninth century about Constantine the Great', Byzantion 57 (1987),

·  E. James 'Pray not to fall into temptation and be warned against danger: Pagan Statues in Christian Constantinople', Gesta 35/1 (1996) and cf. Grigg in Gesta 37/1 (1998)

Eunice and Henry Maguire, Other Icons. Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture (Princeton/Oxford 2007)

Attitudes towards pagan statuary:

C. Mango, 'Antique Statuary and the Byzantine Beholder', DOP 17 (1963), 53-75, reprinted in Byzantium and its Image (Variorum)
Helen Saradi, “Christian Attitudes towards Pagan Monuments …” DOP 44 (1990), 47-61
Cyril Mango, a contribution, this time in French, to Byzance et les Images, eds. A. Guillou and J. Durand (Paris 1994), 95-120 

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