Istanbul, Europe's largest city, became an urban centre of
exceptional size when it was chosen by Constantine the Great as a
new Roman capital city. Named after him, the city has been studied
through its rich textual sources and surviving buildings, but its
archaeology remains relatively little known compared to other great
urban centres of the ancient and medieval worlds. Constantinople:
Archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis is a major archaeological
assessment of a key period in the development of this historic
city. It uses material evidence, contemporary developments in urban
archaeology and archaeological theory to explore over a thousand
years of the city's development. Moving away from the scholarly
emphasis on the monumental core or city defences, the volume
investigates the inter-mural area between the 5th-century land
walls and the Constantinian city wall – a zone which encompasses
half of the walled area but which has received little
archaeological attention. Utilising data from a variety of sources,
including the 'Istanbul Rescue Archaeology Project', created to
record material threatened with destruction, the analysis proposes
a new model of Byzantine Constantinople. A range of themes are
explored including social, economic and cognitive development,
Byzantine perceptions of the city, the consequences of imperial
ideology, and the impact of 'self-organization' brought about by
many minor decisions. Constantinople casts new light on the
transformation of an ancient Roman capital to an Orthodox Christian
holy city and will be of great importance to archaeologists and
historians.
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