From its foundation in the fourth century to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, the city of Constantinople boasted a collection of antiquities unrivaled by any city of the medieval world.
Drawing on medieval literary sources and graphic and archaeological material, it identifies and describes the antiquities that were known.
This book reconstructs the collection from the time of the city\'s founding by Constantine the Great through the sixth century reign of the emperor Justinian.
From its foundation in the fourth century to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, the city of Constantinople boasted a collection of antiquities unrivaled by any city of the medieval world