Byzantine Athens, 10th-12th centuries / Charalambos Bouras.

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Bouras, Charalampos [Browse]
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English
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London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
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xxxv, 335 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

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      "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.
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      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.
      ISBN
      • 9781472479907 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
      • 1472479904 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
      LCCN
      2016033704
      OCLC
      946606022
      Other standard number
      • 40027443528
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