Download or read book Constantinople through the Ages written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-11-28 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constantinople Through the Ages aims to map the long and rich history of Constantinople, from its foundations to the present. Starting point is the ‘visible city’; the ways in which continuity and change in history are still observable in present-day Istanbul. The contributors, each of them foremost experts in their fields, address the interaction between the different layers of time from various sources and perspectives. They explore how later inhabitants received and appropriated the legacy of their predecessors, and how the city’s tangible and intangible heritage has been perceived and (ab)used in both the past and the present.