Istanbul

by Alain Ducellier, Gilles Veinstein, Stefanos Yerasimos

Trait d'union entre l'Europe et l'Asie, capitale du monde chrétien, capitale de l'empire ottoman, Byzance, Constantinople ou Istanbul, on ne compte plus les péripéties successives de l'histoire de cette métropole extraordinaire. Qui n'a pas rêvé aux noms de Topkapi, de la mosquée bleue ou de Saint-Sophie ? Comme dans les volumes précédents de la collection L'art et les grandes cités , Istanbul est écrit par des historiens qui ne laissent aucune de ses étapes dans l'ombre.

496 pages, Paperback

Published October 23, 2002

About the author

Alain Ducellier (1934), professor of the history of the Byzantine and Balkan history of the University of Tuluz Le Mirail. The main object of his studies is especially the Byzantine ideology and thinking, as well as the relations of the Byzantine Empire with the neighbors. He is the author and co-author of more than forty works. Michel Balard (1936), Emeritus professor at Paris I University, chairman of the Association of History and Archeology of Sucy-en-Brie and of the Association of History and Archeology Associations in Paris and Île-de-France. He devotes his teaching and research to the political and economic relations between East and West in the Middle Ages. He has run a research group at CNRS for western colonization in the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages.