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Millennium transcends boundaries - between epochs and regions, and
between disciplines. Like the Millennium-Jahrbuch, the journal
Millennium-Studien pursues an international, interdisciplinary
approach that cuts across historical eras. Composed of scholars
from various disciplines, the editorial and advisory boards welcome
submissions from a range of fields, including history, literary
studies, art history, theology, and philosophy. Millennium-Studien
also accepts manuscripts on Latin, Greek, and Oriental cultures. In
addition to offering a forum for monographs and edited collections
on diverse topics, Millennium-Studien publishes commentaries and
editions. The journal primary accepts publications in German and
English, but also considers submissions in French, Italian, and
Spanish. If you want to submit a manuscript please send it to the
editor from the most relevant discipline: Wolfram Brandes,
Frankfurt (Byzantine Studies and Early Middle Ages):
[email protected] Peter von Moellendorff, Giessen (Greek language
and literature): [email protected]
Dennis Pausch, Dresden (Latin language and literature):
[email protected] Rene Pfeilschifter, Wurzburg (Ancient
History): [email protected] Karla Pollmann,
Bristol (Early Christianity and Patristics):
[email protected] All manuscript submissions will be
reviewed by the editor and one outside specialist (single-blind
peer review).
This Element discusses the ancient statues once set up in Byzantine
Constantinople, with a special focus on their popular reception.
From its foundation by Constantine the Great in 324, Constantinople
housed a great number of statues which stood in the city on streets
and public places, or were kept in several collections and in the
Hippodrome. Almost all of them, except a number of newly made
statues of reigning emperors, were ancient objects which had been
brought to the city from other places. Many of these statues were
later identified with persons other than those they actually
represented, or received an allegorical (sometimes even an
apocalyptical) interpretation. When the Crusaders of the Fourth
Crusade conquered the city in 1204, almost all of the statues of
Constantinople were destroyed or looted.
The Patria is a fascinating four-book collection of short
historical notes, stories, and legends about the buildings and
monuments of Constantinople, compiled in the late tenth century by
an anonymous author who made ample use of older sources. It also
describes the foundation and early (pre-Byzantine) history of the
city, and includes the Narrative on the Construction of Hagia
Sophia, a semi-legendary account of Emperor Justinian I's patronage
of this extraordinary church (built between 532 and 537). The
Patria constitutes a unique record of popular traditions about the
city, especially its pagan statues, held by its medieval
inhabitants. At the same time it is the only Medieval Greek text to
present a panorama of the city as it existed in the middle
Byzantine period. Despite its problems of historical reliability,
the Patria is still one of our main guides for the urban history of
medieval Constantinople. This translation makes the entire text of
the Patria accessible in English for the first time.
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