Describing Constantinople

Viewing the city

The local view: rhetorical

The Nea Ekklesia

Text

•       Theophanes Continuatus, ed. I. Bekker, Bonn (1838) 325-329. [Greek text from Vita Basilii]
•       C. Mango, The art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453, Englewood Cliffs (1972) 194-195. [English translation of Greek text]

Discussions of the architecture

•       H. Buchwald, “Sardis church E - A premilinary report”, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 26 (1977) 277-278.
•       S. ?ur?i?, “Architectural significance of subsidiary chapels in middle Byzantine churches”, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 36 (1977) 94-110.
•       S. ?ur?i?, “Architectural reconsideration of the Nea Ekklesia”, Abstracts of Papers, Sixth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, October 24-26 1980, Oberlin College and the College of Wooster, Oberlin, Ohio (1980) 11-12.
•       P. Magdalino, “Observations on the Nea Ekklesia”, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 37(1987) 51-64.
•       C. Mango, “Nea Ekklesia”, in A. P. Kazhdan (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, New York - Oxford (1991) 1446.
•       R. Ousterhout, “Reconstructing ninth-century Constantinople”, in L. Brubaker (ed.), Byzantium in the ninth century: dead or alive? Papers from the thirtieth spring symposium of Byzantine studies, Birmingham, March 1996, Aldershot (1998) 115-30

The Holy Apostles

·  Constantine of Rhodes, Description des oeuvres d'art et de l'Eglise des Saints Apotres de Constantinople ed. Emile Legrand (Paris : E. Leroux, 1896)

·  Extracts in Mango, Art of the Byzantine Empire

·  Nicholas Mesarites, Description of the Church of the Apostles at Constantinople, Greek text edited with translation, commentaryand introduction by Glanville Downey.

Excerpts online

Discussions

·  A. Epstein, "The Rebuilding and Redecoration of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople: A Reconsideration," GRBS 23 (1982), 79-92.

·  Th. Baseu-Barabas, Zwischen Wort und Bild: Nikolaos Mesarites une seine Beschreibung des Mosaikschmucks der Apostelkirche in Konstantinopel (Vienna, 1992)

Ken Dark & Ferudun Özgümü?, ' New evidence for the Byzantine Church of the Holy Apostles from Fatih Camii, Istanbul', Oxford Journal of Archaeology 21 (2002), 393-413

·  C. Mango and J. Parker, "A Twelfth-century Description of St Sophia," DOP 14 (1960), reprinted in Mango, Studies on Constantinople (Variorum 1993)

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