Byzantium and Landscapes of Loss : The Recreation of Constantinople in the Laskarid and Palaiologan Eras

Pitamber, Naomi Ruth

Cambridge University Press（2026/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 354 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009331791
• DDC分類 949.504

Full Description

This richly illustrated book presents the art, architecture, and material culture of a little-known Byzantine dynasty, the Laskarids of Nicaea (1204-1261), uncovering their multiple contributions to the so-called Palaiologan renaissance which occurred in Constantinople after the city was regained in 1261. It adds many new examples of artistic and archaeological material to the existing historical work on the period. These include new and renovated fortifications, churches, palaces, and defensive towers, as well as artistic media such as mosaics, frescoes, coins, seals, inscriptions, and ceramics. Naomi Pitamber argues that features from Constantinople and its associated imperial history were recalled, edited, and selected for quotation in Nicaean exile and informed the Palaiologan renaissance in Constantinople. Laskarid cultural production in Asia Minor physically linked the urban imperial past of Constantinople to the present exilic moment, building a bridge to a yet unknown but much hoped-for future reuniting capital, court, empire, and people.

Contents

Introduction; 1. The Laskarid Periphery as Center and Source; 2. Imperial Laskarid Imagery from Exile; 3. The Palaiologan Palace of the Porphyrogennitos and Nymphaion; 4. Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and Nicaea; 5. Fresco Painting in the Laskarid Realm; 6. Laskarid Nicaea as the new 'New Rome'; 7. Conclusion and Epilogue.