Byzantine Constantinople
The Walls of the City and Adjoining Historical Sites

A detailed description of the walls of Byzantine Constantinople with illustrations, maps and plans.

Alexander Van Millingen (Author)

9781108014564, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2010

488 pages, 20 b/w illus. 8 maps
21.3 x 14 x 3.3 cm, 0.62 kg

One of the most detailed works describing the walls of this renowned city, Alexander Van Milligen's Byzantine Constantinople: The Walls of the City and Adjoining Historical Sites (1899) is of use to anyone interested in Byzantine architecture, the Byzantine Empire, and medieval history more generally. Van Milligen uses his expertise as a historian who had lived and taught in Constantinople to provide a detailed account of the Byzantine capital before it fell in 1453. Complete with meticulous verbal descriptions, illustrations, maps and plans, Van Milligen combines historical accounts with physical surveys, tracing Constantinople's expansion. He describes how the city spread and how the walls adapted, pausing to outline the importance of certain structures within the city, and of the hierarchy of gates within the walls. He also includes a table of emperors to assist the general reader, while his painstaking detail makes the book useful to professional scholars as well.

1. The site of Constantinople - the limits of Byzantium
2. The city of Constantinople - its limits, fortifications, interior arrangement
3. The Theodosian walls
4. The gates in the Theodosian walls - The Golden Gate
5. The gates in the Theodosian walls continued
6. Repairs on the Theodosian walls
7. The palace of the Porphyrogenitus (Tekfour Serai)
8. The fortifcations on the north-western side of the city, before the seventh century
9. The walls of the Emperor Manuel Comnenus
10. The Tower of Anemas: The Tower of Isaac Angelus
11. Inmates of the Prison of Anemas
12. The Wall of the Emperor Heraclius: The Wall of the Emperor Leo the Armenian
13. The seaward walls
14. The walls along the Golden Horn
15. The walls along the Golden Horn continued
16. The walls along the Sea of Marmora
17. The harbours on the Sea of Marmora
18. The harbours on the Sea of Marmora continued
19. The Hebdomon
20. The Anastasian Wall
Table of Emperors
Index.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]