Istanbul : a tale of three cities / Bettany Hughes.
Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul-- one city, where stories and histories collide. The gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. Hughes takes us on an historical journey from the Neolithic to the present, exploring th...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA :
Da Capo Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First Da Capo Press edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xxix, 800 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- Introduction
- Byzantion, Byzas' City, 800,000 BC-AD 311. Bones, stones and mud ; City of the blind ; City of light ; Persian fire ; City of siege ; Wine and witches ; All roads lead from Rome : the Egnatian way ; The enemy within ; Persecution ; The meek shall inherit the earth
- Constantinople, City of God, AD 311-475. The battle of Milvian Bridge ; City of gold ; In the name of Christ's Blood ; Queen of cities ; Faith, hope, charity and the Nicene Creed ; Helena ; Births and deaths ; Pagans and pretenders ; The problem with Goths ; A dove of peace or a fist of iron : Theodosios ; Battles in Heaven and on earth : Gaza and Alexandria : Christian particles in a pagan atmosphere : Nova Roma ; Statues in the sky : ascetics ; Sex and the city : eunuchs ; The sack of Old Rome : the problem with Goths, part two ; Vandals, wisdom and Attila the Hun
- The new Rome, AD 476-565. City of the Mother of God ; The golden age ; Earthquakes and fires ; The Phoenix city ; Spectacular, spectacular ; Law and order ; The Jewish city ; The classical city ; All is vanity
- The world's desire, AD 565-1050. The silkworm's journey ; Al-Qustantiniyya ; A bone in the throat of Allah ; Monks by night, lions by day ; Byzantium and Britannia ; Icons and iconoclasm ; Viking foe-friends and the birth of Russia ; Within the walls ; The Varangian Guard
- City of war, AD 1050-1320. A great schism? ; 1071,1081, and all that ; The city of crusades ; Negotiating monks and homicidal usurpers ; Venetian peril, chivalric kingdoms
- Allah's city, AD 1320-AD 1575 (Islamic calendar 720-983). Yıldırım : the thunderbolt ; No country for old men ; Twilight city ; The abode of felicity ; One God in heaven, one empire on earth ; Renaissance city ; A garden of mixed fruit ; A diamond between two sapphires ; The Muslim millennium
- Imperial city, AD 1550-1800 (Islamic calendar 957-1215). Gunpowder empires and gunning personalities ; dragomans and eunuchs ; The Sultanate of women ; The Janissaries ; The great siege of Vienna ; The while slave trade and the white plague ; White Caucasians ; Soap and smallpox ; Tulips and textiles
- City of revolt and opportunity, AD 1800 (Islamic calendar 1215) onwards. O love! Young love! ; Massacre ; Revolution ; Tsargrad ; Scutari ; One-way traffic ; A sick man in the Rose Garden ; Gallipoli : the end of an empire ; The red apple ; The catastrophe ; The last caliph ; Global futures
- Coda.