Hagia Sophia in Context: An Archaeological Re-examination of the Cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople

Abstract

Final publication of 14 years of archaeological work at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, aimed both at examining the immediate surroundings of the Byzantine church and recording newly-exposed parts of the church building itself. Discoveries include the Patriarchal palace (from which the Orthodox Church was governed for over a 1000 years), the main ('Great') baptistery of the church, and substantial new portions of the sixth-century cathedral. These alter significantly the known plan of the building and transform understanding of the surrounding ecclesiastical complex, with wide-ranging implications for the purpose and function of these and for interpreting wider ideological, cultural, religious and architectural change in the fifth and sixth centuries.

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