Fashioning Sixth-Century Constantinople: Text, Translation and Commentary of Book I of the Buildings by Prokopios of Kaisareia [Hardcover]

Foreword and Introduction

Foreword

Note on the Edition

Main manuscripts used for this edition

Note on the Translation

Note on the Archaeological Commentary

Introduction

Procopius's Buildings: Significance to Scholarship

Constantinople

Constantinople and Justinian: Context and Image

Imperial Patronage in Constantinople: Norms and Practices

Other Texts on Justinian's Constructions in Constantinople

Reconstructing Late Antique Constantinople through Archaeology: Historical Development and Methods

Procopius's Biography and His Relation to Constantinople

The Text of the Buildings as a Historical Artifact

The Date of the Buildings

The Textual Transmission: Manuscripts, Abridgement and Extracts

The Byzantine Afterlife of the Buildings

Early modern reception of the Buildings: editions and translations before Haury

The Text as Literary Object

The Procopian Matrix: Style, Narrative and Genre

Composition: Macro and Microstructures, Motifs, and Themes

Buildings Classification

A Brief Note on Orientation

Maps and Plans

Text and translation of the Buildings and chapter-by-chapter commentary

Preface: rhetorical and historical exordium, Justinians military, legal and religious achievements, and delayed reveal of the subject (1.1.119)

Hagia Sophia: historical context, design elements  focus on the central space (1.1.2049)

Hagia Sophia: description of interior features  focus on the rest of the church?(1.1.5066)