Автор:John Freely Год: 2009 Издание:Cambridge University Press Страниц: 350 ISBN: 052117905, 9780521179058, 052117905X978, 052117905X978 This book is about the Byzantine monuments of Istanbul, including more than 20 churches, most notably Haghia Sophia, as well as the remains of the land and sea walls, the Hippodome, imperial palaces, commemorative columns, reservoirs and cisterns, an aqueduct, a triumphal archway and a fortified port. They are described here in chronological order and in the context of their times, through the political, religious, social, economic, intellectual and artistic developments in the dynasties that came to power during the turbulent Byzantine age.