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Byzantine Athens, 10th-12th centuries / Charalambos Bouras.
Author
Bouras, Charalampos
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Uniform title
Vyzantinē Athēna, 10os-12os ai.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Description
xxxv, 335 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
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Art, Byzantine
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Greece
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Athens
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Athens (Greece)
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Antiquities, Byzantine
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Summary note
"In this masterful synthesis, Charalambos Bouras draws together material and textual evidence for Athens in the Middle Byzantine period, from the mid-tenth century to 1204, when it was conquered by Crusaders. What emerges from his meticulous investigation is an urban fabric surprisingly makeshift in its domestic sector yet exuberantly creative in its ecclesiastical architecture. Rather than viewing the city as a mere shadow of its ancient past, Bouras demonstrates how Athens remained an important city of the Byzantine Empire as the seat of a metropolitan, home to local aristocracy, and pilgrimage destination for those who came to worship at the Christian Parthenon. Byzantine Athens explores the relationship of the Byzantine infrastructure to earlier configurations, shedding light on the water supply, industrial facilities, streets and fortifications of medieval Athens, and exploring the evidence for the form and typology of Byzantine houses. Thanks to Bouras's indefatigable study of all available archaeological reports the first part of the book offers an overall picture of the Middle Byzantine city. The second part presents a fully documented and illustrated catalogue of nearly 40 churches, including synthetic treatments of their typology and morphology set in the wider Byzantine architectural context. Finally, Bouras joins his unrivalled knowledge of the surviving remains and exhaustive scrutiny of the relevant scholarship to offer a historical interpretation of the Athenian monuments. Byzantine Athens is a unique achievement that will remain an invaluable compendium of our knowledge of one of the most complex, yet relatively unknown, Byzantine cities."-- Routledge website.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
1. INTRODUCTION, p.1
Previous research and scholarship, p.1
The written sources, p.3
The physical environment of Athens, p.5
General overview of the urban plan of medieval Athens, p.7
2. HE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND THE MONUMENTS, p.11
The fortifications of Middle Byzantine Athens, p.11
The gates in the walls and the streets, p.25
Water supply in medieval Athens, p.33
Points of reference in the medieval city, p.39
Residental areas of Athens, p.50
Introduction: Information from the written sources, p.50
Residential areas of Athens, p.53
Settlement in Plaka and the modern city center, p.54
Settlement in the area of Monastraki and the Library of Hadrian, p.59
Settlement in the Roman Agora, p.62
The Athenian Agora and the Areopagus, p.66
South slope of the Acropolis, p.83
Syntagma Square, the National Garden and the Zappeion, p.94
The Kerameikos, p.99
Domestic architecture, p.101
The production of goods, the economy and industrial buildings, p.115
Unbuilt spaces and cemeteries, p.124
The churches of medieval Athens, p.127
The ecclesiastical architecture of Athens: Introduction, p.127
Catalogue of Middle Byzantine churches in Athens, p.131
The Agora. Hagioi Apostoloi/Holy Apostles, p.131
Agora. Hagios Nikolaos, p.136
Roman Agora. Church beneath the Fethiye Mosque, p.137
Hagia Aikaterine/Saint Catherine, p.140
Acropolis. Parthenon, p.146
Acropolis. Propylaia. Chapels, p.155
Hagioi Anargyroi in Psyrri Square, p.157
Hagioi Apostoloi sta marmara (The Klepsydra fountain, Acropolis), p.161
Hagioi Asomatoi near 'Theseion', p.162
Asomatos sta Skalia, p.165
Library of Hadrian. Ruined church, p.170
Galatsi. Hagios Georgios Alexandrinos, p.175
Gorgoepekoos Panagia, or Hagios Eleutherios, or Little Metropolis, p.176
Goudi. Panagia or Hagia Triada, p.185
Hagios Dionysios Areopagites, p.188
Profitis Ilias in the Staropazaro, p.189
Hagioi Theodoroi, p.195
Hephaisteion, or 'Theseion', or Hagios Georgios, p.204
Hagios Thomas, p.209
Martyrion of Hagios Leonidas (Ilissos basilica), p.210
Hagios Ioannes o Theologos, Plaka, p.121
Hagios Ioannes o Prodromos, p.217
Hagios Ioannes on Vouliagmenis Street, p.218
Hagios Ioannes Mangoutes, p.219
Kaisariani, p.221
Kapnikarea, p.226
Monastery of Kynegos ton Philosophon. Katholikon, p.233
Hagios Loukas monastery. Katholikon, p.238
Hagia Marina near Thesion, p.240
Megale Panagia, p.243
Metamorphosis tou Soteros, Plaka, p.245
Hagios Nikolaos Rangavas, p.248
Homologetai/Hagioi Pantes in Ampelokepoi, p.255
Moni Petraki/Petraki monastery. Katholikon, p.259
Sotera of Kottakis, p.265
Soteira Lykodemou, p.269
Taxiarchs church in the Roman Agora, p.275
Hagios Filippos, p.277
Typology, p.284
Morphology and construction, p.286
Athenian ecclesiastical architecture in the wider Greek context, p.295
3. A HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE ATHENIAN MONUMENTS, p.297
4. EPILOGUE: THE ATHENS OF LEGEND DURING THE MIDDLE AGE, p.317.
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ISBN
9781472479907 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
1472479904 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016033704
OCLC
946606022
Other standard number
40027443528
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