HIST 218 Lecture Notes - Byzantine Literature, Byzantine Music, Great Palace Of Constantinople
28 Mar 2014
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Byzantium lecture week 10 lecture 1 - march 17th. Byzantine art and architecture part 2 not just icons and churches: Architecture: administration: ways arches, infrastructure: Public buildings of this type look similar to churches in some. Waterworks aqueducts still standing: tunnels, entertainment. Other stadiums, and other venues best in constantinople: private houses, palaces. Many descriptions of these buildings available not hard to look at ruins and these readings and get a sense of what they looked like in their prime. Byzantine style palaces and mansions: 8th century wall decorations great mosque, Damascus: mosaic illustration of major buildings, columns and capitols, semi domes, etc, military installations: Some of best surviving examples e. g. walls, fortresses, harbour installations, etc. across the byzantine world. Fortresses get rebuilt over time byzantine ones are built over roman and greek remains oftentimes: commercial facilities: Many transformed into medieval markets: village architecture: Byzantium was a multi-level society not just the elite.
