Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople
The Cross-Cultural Biography of a Mediterranean Monument
Justinian's triumphal column was the tallest free-standing column of the pre-modern world and was crowned with arguably the
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Justinian's triumphal column was the tallest free-standing column of the pre-modern world and was crowned with arguably the
largest metal equestrian sculpture created anywhere in the world before 1699. The Byzantine empire's bronze horseman towered
over the heart of Constantinople, assumed new identities, spawned conflicting narratives, and acquired widespread international
acclaim. Because all traces of Justinian's column were erased from the urban fabric of Istanbul in the sixteenth century,
scholars have undervalued its astonishing agency and remarkable longevity. Its impact in visual and verbal culture was arguably
among the most extensive of any Mediterranean monument. This book analyzes Byzantine, Islamic, Slavic, Crusader, and Renaissance
historical accounts, medieval pilgrimages, geographic, apocalyptic and apocryphal narratives, vernacular poetry, Byzantine,
Bulgarian, Italian, French, Latin, and Ottoman illustrated manuscripts, Florentine wedding chests, Venetian paintings, and
Russian icons to provide an engrossing and pioneering biography of a contested medieval monument during the millennium of
its life.
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2021
Forlag: Cambridge University Press
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Språk: Engelsk
ISBN: 9781107197275
Format: 25 x 18 cm
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«'This book will be useful for readers interested in a synthetic account of the horseman and … political and religious history of Constantinople/Istanbul, the city's rivals, and its visitors …' Carol C. Mattusch, Bryn Mawr Classical Review»
Introduction; 1. Justinian's Entry into Constantinople: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered; 2. The Making of Justinian's Forum;
3. Defying a Defining Witness: The Bronze Horseman and the Buildings (De Aedificiis) of Prokopios; 4. The Horseman of Baghdad
Responds to the Horseman of Constantinople; 5. Soothing Imperial Anxieties: Theophilos and the Restoration of Justinian's
Crown; 6. Debating Justinian's Merits in the Tenth Century; 7. The Bronze Horseman and a Dark Hour for Humanity; 8. The Horseman
Becomes Heraclius: Crusading Narratives of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries; 9. From Exile in Nicaea to Restoration of Constantinople;
10. A Learned Dialogue Across the Ages: Pachymeres Confronts Prokopios; 11. Orb-session: Constantinople's Future in the Bronze
Horseman's Hand; 12. Justinian's Column and the Antiquarian Gaze: A Centuries-Old 'Secret' Exposed; 13. A Timeless Ideal:
Constantinople in Slavonic Imagination of the Fourteenth to Fifteenth Centuries; 14. The Horseman Meets its End; 15. Horse
as Historia, Byzantium as Allegory; 16. Shadowy Past and Menacing Future; 17. After the Fall: The Bronze Horseman and Eternal
Tsar'grad; Postscript: The Horseman's Debut in Print.
Elena N. Boeck is Professor of History of Art and Architecture at DePaul University. Her publications explore intellectual
exchange in the Mediterranean and unconventional, fascinating forms of engagement with Byzantium's legacy. She is the author
of Imagining the Byzantine Past: The Perception of History in the Illustrated Manuscripts of Skylitzes and Manasses (Cambridge
2015). She held appointments as the Excellence Initiative Professor at Radboud University, and Director of Byzantine Studies
at Dumbarton Oaks.