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Cover 1 Half-title page 3 Title page 5 Copyright page 6 Contents 7 List of Figures and Maps 11 List of Tables 18 Acknowledgements 19 List of Abbreviations 22 Note on Transliteration and Naming Conventions 25 Selected Timeline of the Triumphal Column of Justinian and Its International Reverberations 26 Map of Constantinople 29 Introduction 31 I.1 The Horseman and His Global Reach 34 I.2 A Singular Biography 37 I.3 From Identity to Agency 40 1 Justinian’s Entry into Constantinople: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered 43 1.1 The Court and Its Politics 44 1.2 The Constantinople that Justinian Inherited 45 1.3 Attaining the Throne 54 1.4 Justinian’s Public Projections of Power 58 1.5 Justinian as a Highly Competitive Patron 63 1.6 Conclusion 67 2 The Making of Justinian’s Forum 68 2.1 Not Letting the Crisis of 532 Go to Waste 69 2.2 The Augoustaion Becomes Justinian’s Forum 72 2.3 Hagia Sophia 77 2.4 Construction of the Tallest Column 83 2.5 Laying Claim to a Colossal Bronze Horseman 87 2.6 Imaging Imperial Power on a Colossal Scale 93 2.7 An Equestrian Monument on the Move 95 2.8 Conclusion 100 3 Defying a Defining Witness: the Bronze Horseman and the Buildings (De Aedificiis) of Prokopios 1

Author

Boeck, Elena N.;

Language

EN