Classical
& Late Antique
Byzantine & East Christian
Medieval Western
Early Italian
& Renaissance
European since Renaissance
Islamic
Chinese & Indian
© 2007 Pindar Press
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by Jean Ebersolt 18 x 12 cm 282 pp. 58 illus. Reprint of the Paris 1918 edition
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This book offers a comprehensive survey of descriptions of Constantinople written by visitors, from the pilgrims of the Middle Ages to the European travellers and diplomats of the 18th and 19th centuries. The author examines the evidence these accounts provide for the history of the city, and for monuments which have long disappeared. In its attractive synthesis of bibliographical, archaeological and historical detail, this work is a memorial to Ebersolt's scholarship and a personal tribute to the city itself.
Professor Cyril Mango
has contributed a preface to this reprint.
Constaninople
Byzantine et les Voyageurs de Levant