The Byzantine empire's bronze horseman towered over Constantinople, assumed new identities, spawned conflicting narratives, and acquired international acclaim. This engrossing and pioneering biography demonstrates that the colossal, the exceptional, and the stationary can help us understand a global middle ages.
The Byzantine empire's bronze horseman towered over Constantinople, assumed new identities, spawned conflicting narratives, and acquired international acclaim. This engrossing and pioneering biography demonstrates that the colossal, the exceptional, and the stationary can help us understand a global middle ages.
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.
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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.
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.
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