Constantinople : capital of Byzantium
Better known as Constantinople, Miklagarth was the capital city of the empire of Byzantium and a major political force in the eastern Mediterranean for over a thousand years. This title examines the interaction between the spiritual and the political, the mythical and the actual and reconstructs the city in its heyday in 1200.
xvii, 289 p., [8] p. de lám. : il. ; 24 cm
9781847251794, 184725179X
954167984
Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The City of Wonders; 2. Founding Fathers; 3. Defence; 4. Palaces and Power; 5. Churches and Monasteries; 6. 'Two Thirds of the Wealth in this World'; 7. Democracy; 8. The Beginning of the End; 9. The Ruin of Byzantine Constantinople; 10. Epilogue: Byzantine Constantinople Today; Bibliography; Index.