Byzantium and landscapes of loss : the recreation of Constantinople in the Laskarid and Palaiologan eras / Naomi Ruth Pitamber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pitamber, Naomi Ruth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byzantine Empire--History--Lascarid dynasty, 1208-1259.

Byzantine Empire.

Byzantine Empire--History--Palaeologi dynasty, 1259-1448.

Byzantine Empire--Civilization--1081-1453.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations (color), maps (color)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The laskarid periphery as center and source

Imperial laskarid imagery from exile

The palaiologan palace of the porphyrogennitos and nymphaion

Hagia sophia in constantinople and nicaea

Fresco painting in the laskarid realm

Nicaea as the new

Notes:

Including bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed February 4, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version : Pitamber, Naomi Ruth, Byzantium and landscapes of loss,

ISBN:

9781009331777

1009331779

OCLC:

1552151800

Publisher Number:

CIPO000304531

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license