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Departmental Papers (History of Art)
Department of the History of Art
January 1998
Reconstructing ninth-century Constantinople
Robert G. Ousterhout
University of Pennsylvania, [email protected]
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Ousterhout, R. G. (1998). Reconstructing ninth-century Constantinople. Retrieved from http://repository.upenn.edu/
histart_papers/1
Reprinted from Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive?, edited by Leslie Brubaker (Hampshire: Ashgate, 1998, pages 115-130.
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Reconstructing ninth-century Constantinople
Abstract
In 879, following what was called a "victorious return from campaign", the Emperor Basil I staged a triumphal
entry into the city of Constantinople. After spending the night at Hebdomon, he moved in solemn procession
toward the city, stopping for a costume change at the monastery of the Avraamites before passing through the
Golden Gate.
Comments
Reprinted from Byzantium in the Ninth Century: Dead or Alive?, edited by Leslie Brubaker (Hampshire:
Ashgate, 1998, pages 115-130.
This book chapter is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/histart_papers/1