The Early Churches of Constantinople: Architecture and Liturgy

by Thomas F. Mathews

The first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct from archaeological, liturgical, and historical sources the ceremonial use of Early Byzantine architecture. The archaeological remains of a dozen pre-Iconoclastic churches in Constantinople are examined, and the characteristic patterns of planning revealed are interpreted in the light of the Early Byzantine liturgy. A new approach to Byzantine architecture, which is studied here in the critical first...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271001089
• ISBN13: 9780271001081
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages