Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction --   Shaun Tougher -- 1 The Forum of Theodosius I in Constantinople: Symbolic Geography and Dynastic Propaganda --   Anthony Kaldellis -- 2 The Afterlife of a Pagan Hero in a Christian Capital: Antique Sculptures of Hercules in Constantinople --   Lenia Kouneni -- 3 L’église du sanctuaire à miracles de Constantinople dédié à Côme et Damien : localisation et topographie --   Michel Kaplan -- 4 From Rome to Constantinople, or Brief Reflections on the Adriatic in Early Medieval Geographical Thought --   Paul Stephenson -- 5 Ravenna: Constantinople of the West? --   T.S. Brown -- 6 Fortresses in a Dark Age: a Preliminary Appraisal --   James Crow -- 7 Thrace, Thrakesion and Hellas --   John Haldon -- 8 Moment de mémoires : le siège de Constantinople par les Arabes (717-718) --   Marie-France Auzépy -- 9 The Commemoration of the Siege of 717–718 in the Liturgical Calendar of Constantinople --   Marc D. Lauxtermann -- 10 Rome as urbs inveterata? A Battle of Epithets in the Confrontation of East and West in the 9th Century --   Evangelos Chrysos -- 11 The Macedonian Dynasty in the Life of Basil the Younger: People and Places --   Shaun Tougher -- 12 Les recueils byzantins : une question de terminologie --   Paolo Odorico -- 13 Iterum Theophanes Continuatus Book 6 --   Michael Featherstone -- 14 The ‘School’ of Porphyrogennetos and Magnaura Revisited: Some Notes on Theophanes Continuatus and Symeon the Logothete --   Athanasios Markopoulos -- 15 Alt-Constantinople: Ceremony without the City --   Margaret Mullett -- 16 The Imperial Rules for Athos in the 10th and 11th Centuries --   Rosemary Morris -- 17 Le choix des éparques de la mort de Basile II à la prise de Constantinople par les croisés --   Jean-Claude Cheynet -- 18 Kedrenos: His Chronicling of Jews and Their Place in World History --   Roger Scott with John Burke and Paul Tuffin -- 19 Manganeios Prodromos, Poem 71: a Personal Verse Complaint in a Liturgical Setting --   Elizabeth Jeffreys† and Michael Jeffreys -- 20 Four Images and a Church: the Mother of God of Chalkoprateia and Its Icons --   Christine Angelidi -- 21 The Church of Theotokos Pharos: a Note and Some Suggestions --   Michael Angold -- 22 Kurze Nachrichten aus dem Patriarchatsregister von Konstantinopel --   Eleftheria Papagianni -- 23 Visions, Voices, and Fragrances of the Beyond: Sensory Aspects of Ottoman Tombs --   Nina Macaraig -- 24 Regina rediviva: Constantinople, Queen of Rebetika --   Stathis Gauntlett -- 25 The Protagonist and the City: Constantinople in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations --   Kostas Zafeiris -- Publications of Paul Magdalino from 1976 to 2022 -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

This book celebrates one of the foremost Byzantinists, Paul Magdalino. It consists of 25 chapters by peers, friends and former students. The chapters reflect Magdalino’s own research interests, most notably Constantinople itself, and span from late antiquity to the modern world. Particular themes within the book are the topography and monuments of Constantinople, relations between Byzantium and the West, the recasting of Byzantium in the ‘Dark Age’, and literary culture and society under the Macedonian and Komnenian dynasties. The volume is not just a celebration of Magdalino’s work but an important contribution to the study of Byzantine history and culture. Contributors are Christine Angelidi, Michael Angold, Marie-France Auzépy, T.S. Brown, John Burke, J.-C. Cheynet, Evangelos Chrysos, James Crow, Michael Featherstone, Stathis Gauntlett, John Haldon, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Michael Jeffreys, Anthony Kaldellis, Michel Kaplan, Lenia Kouneni, Marc D. Lauxtermann, Nina Macaraig, Athanasios Markopoulos, Rosemary Morris, Margaret Mullett, Paolo Odorico, Eleftheria Papagianni, Roger Scott, Paul Stephenson, Shaun Tougher, Paul Tuffin, and Kostas Zafeiris.

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