The Byzantine court : source of power and culture ; papers from the Second International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium, Istanbul 21 - 23 June 2010

Körperschaft: Uluslararası Sevgi Gönül Bizans Araştırmaları Sempozyumu Istanbul, Turkey)
Weitere Verfasser: Ödekan, Ayla, 1940-
Necipoğlu, Nevra
Akyürek, Engin, 1957-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Istanbul : Koç University Press, 2013.
Umfang/Format: xvi, 242 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9786055250171
6055250179
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Opening speech / Ayla Ödekan
  • 1. Byzantine palace architecture. The Byzantine court as a physical space / Albrecht Berger ; Excavations at the Byzantine Great Palace (Palatium Magnum) in the area of the Old Sultanahmet Jail / Asuman Denker ; Water and the Great Palace in Constantinople / James Crow ; The rotunda at the Myrelaion in Constantinople: pilaster capitals, mosaics, and brick stamps / Philipp Niewohner ; The architecture of aristocratic palaces in Constantinople in written sources / Peter Schreiner ; Constantinople, Konya, conical kiosks, cultural confluence / Scott Redford ; The New Palace of Mehmed Fatih and its Byzantine legacy / Simon Malmberg
  • 2. The Byzantine court as the center of imperial power. Power building and power space in Byzantine Constantinople: the ethics and dynamics of construction and conservation / Paul Magdalino ; Palatial gardens as symbols of imperial power / Antony R. Littlewood ; The emperor as cosmopolitan ruler: imaging middle Byzantine imperial power / Alicia Walker ; The Great Palace and the iconoclast emperors / Marie-France Auzépy ; Female space at the Byzantine court / Judith Herrin ; Daily life at the Blachernai Palace: the servants of the imperial bedchamber (1261-1354) / Frouke Schrijver ; Emblems of power in Palaiologan Constantinople / Robert G. Ousterhout ; Between the imperial court and the western maritime powers: the impact of naturalizations on the economy of late Byzantine Constantinople / David Jacoby ; Circulation of people between the Byzantine and Ottoman courts / Nevra Necipoğlu
  • 3. Ceremonies at the court and in the city. Art, ceremony, and spiritual authority at the Byzantine court / Henry Maguire ; Processions and public spaces in early and middle Byzantine Constantinople / Leslie Brubaker ; From the Hippodrome to the reception halls of the Great Palace: acclamations and dances in the service of imperial ideology / Brigitte Pitarakis ; De cerimoniis: the revival of antiquity in the Great Palace and the 'Macedonian renaissance' / J. Michael Featherstone ; Dressed to kill: middle Byzantine military ceremonial attire / Maria G. Parani ; Diplomacy as performance: power politics and resistance between the Byzantine and the Early Medieval Islamic courts / Koray Durak ; Inside and outside the palace: ceremonies in the Constantinople of the Palaiologo / Ruth Macrides
  • 4. Court culture and visual arts. Did Byzantium have a court literature? / Margaret Mullett ; History writing as political propaganda in late Byzantium / Apostolos Karpozilos ; The school in Byzantium: structure and problems / Athanasios Markopoulos ; Translations from Greek into Arabic at the court of Mehmed the Conqueror / Maria Mavroudi ; Antiquarianism and revivalism in late Byzantine court culture and visual arts / Ivana Jevtic ; Cultural aspects of power in the Byzantine Empire: the court as patron of metal art objects / Meryem Acara Eser ; Byzantine lead seals representing the Kanikleios of the imperial palace / Vera Bulgurlu
  • Closing speech / Ayla Ödekan.