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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Hagia Sophia in context
    sub title: an archaeological re-examination of the Cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople
  name:
    name part: Dark, K. R. (Ken R.)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Kostenec, Jan
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 141 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.
  abstract: The Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia has been a source of wonder and fascination since its sixth-century construction. It was the premier monument of the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, and remains one of the most recognisable symbols of modern Istanbul. Often seen as encapsulating Byzantine history and culture, the building has been the subject of much scholarly interest since the Renaissance. However, while almost all previous archaeological work has focussed on the church itself, the surrounding complex of ecclesiastical buildings has been largely neglected. The research project presented here (co-directed by the authors) is the first to focus on the archaeology of the immediate environs of the church in order to understand the complex as a whole. Previously unrecorded material includes parts of the Patriarchal complex, from which the Orthodox Church was governed for almost a millennium, what may be the 'Great Baptistery' north of the church, and what are perhaps the first fragments of the fourth-century phase of the cathedral yet identified. The discovery of an unrecognized porch, surviving to its full height within the standing building, changes the known plan of the famous sixth-century church. This new information provides fresh evidence about the appearance and function of the complex, illustrating its similarities to, and dissimilarities from, episcopal centres elsewhere in the Byzantine world. Combined with other archaeological sources, these discoveries enable us to place the sixth-century cathedral in its urban context and to reconsider what Hagia Sophia can tell us about the wider Byzantine world.
  note: Ken Dark and Jan Kostenec.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-141).
  subject:
    geographic code: a-tu---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ayasofya Müzesi.
  subject:
    topic: Architecture, Byzantine
    geographic: Turkey
    geographic: Istanbul
  subject:
    topic: Church architecture
    geographic: Turkey
    geographic: Istanbul
  subject:
    geographic: Istanbul (Turkey)
    topic: Buildings, structures, etc
  classification: NA5870.A9 D37 2019
  classification: 726.509563
  identifier: 9781789250305
  identifier: 1789250307
  identifier: 9781789250312
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190308
    record change date: 20191021074957.0
    record identifier: in00004075156