Eastern Medieval Architecture: The Building Traditions of Byzantium and Neighboring Lands 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0190058404
• ISBN-13: 9780190058401
• Author: Robert G. Ousterhout

Aside from Hagia Sophia, the monuments of the Byzantine East are poorly understood today. This is in sharp contrast to the well-known architectural marvels of Western Europe?s Middle Ages. In this landmark survey, distinguished art historian Robert Ousterhout introduces readers to the rich and diverse architectural traditions of the medieval Eastern Mediterranean.

Table contents:

Part One: Late Antiquity: Third to Seventh Centuries
Chapter One: Rome, the Domus Ecclesiae, and the Church Basilica
Chapter Two: A Tale of Two Cities: Constantinople and Jerusalem in the Time of Constantine
Chapter Three: Ritual Settings I: Liturgy, Initiation, Commemoration
Chapter Four: Ritual Settings II: Pilgrimage, Relics, and Sacred Space
Chapter Five: Makers, Methods, and Materials
Chapter Six: Regional Developments, East and West
Chapter Seven: Secular Architecture: Cities, Houses, and Fortifications
Chapter Eight: Innovative Architecture
Chapter Nine: The Basilica Transformed: Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
Chapter Ten: Justinian’s Building Program and Sixth-Century Developments

Part Two: The Transitional Period: Seventh to Ninth Centuries
Chapter Eleven: The Transitional Period within Byzantium
Chapter Twelve: Transformation at the Edges of Empire

Part Three: The Middle Byzantine Centuries: Ninth to Twelfth centuries
Chapter Thirteen: New Church Architecture and the Rise of Monasticism
Chapter Fourteen: Secular Architecture and the Fate of the City
Chapter Fifteen: Constantinople as an Architectural Center
Chapter Sixteen: Master Builders and their Craft
Chapter Seventeen: Development of Regional Styles I: Middle Byzantine Greece and Macedonia
Chapter Eighteen: Development of Regional Styles II: Middle Byzantine Anatolia
Chapter Nineteen: Development of Regional Styles III: The Caucasus: Armenia and Georgia
Chapter Twenty: Contested Lands: Architecture at the Time of the Crusades
Chapter Twenty-One: The Exotic West: Venice, Southern Italy, and Sicily
Chapter Twenty-Two: Exporting a Culture/ Importing a Culture: Bulgaria, Kievan Rus’, and Serbia

Part Four: The Late Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Centuries: Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Difficult Thirteenth Century
Chapter Twenty-Four: Palaiologan Constantinople and a New Architectural Idiom
Chapter Twenty-Five: Old and New: Greek Cities and Landscapes
Chapter Twenty-Six: Regional Diversity: Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania
Chapter Twenty-seven: Rival Powers: The Ottomans and Russia

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