Politics, Conflict and the Monastic Topography of 15th-Century Constantinople

By Nicholas Melvani

This study of Constantinople's monasteries within their urban framework during the last decades of Byzantium (1394-1453) explores the activity of monks, nuns, and affiliated laypeople such as patrons just before the city's Ottoman conquest and transformation into the capital of an Islamic Empire.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367514869
• ISBN13: 9780367514860
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"