Description: This book studies the research perspective in which the literary inhabitants of Late Antique and medieval Constantinople remembered its past and conceptualised its existence as a Greek city that was the political capital of a Christian Roman state.
Brief description: Paul Magdalino, D.Phil. (1976), Oxford, is Emeritus Professor of Byzantine History at the University of St Andrews, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published extensively on many aspects and all periods of the history and culture of Byzantium.