Description: The essays in this volume reconsider from a variety of vantage points an early collaborative project of Dumbarton Oaks, which brought together a philologist, an art historian, and an architectural historian to reconstruct their own version of the Church of the Holy Apostles.
Brief description: Margaret Mullett is Professor of Byzantine Studies, Emerita, at Queen's University Belfast and Director of Byzantine Studies, Emerita, at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University.
Review Quotes: Offers an almost definitive reconstruction of the Justinianic building and a consideration of its legacy in Byzantium, the West, and in Ottoman Constantinople; a discussion of its annexes and surrounding neighborhood; serious reassessments of the texts by Constantine the Rhodian and Nicholas Mesarites; important background information about Apostolic apocryphal literature, the notion of apostolic succession, and the complex's short afterlife after the conquest; and significant historiographical lessons. Finally, in an era when even prestigious academic publishers opt for cheaply made paperbacks, I cannot stress enough how attractive this book is...It is a joy to hold and to read.--Vasileios Marinis "Byzantine Review" (3/1/2021 12:00:00 AM)