Constantinople: A Topographical, Archaeological & Historical Description... Vol. 1: Constantinople intra and circa Muros
Constantinople: A Topographical, Archaeological & Historical Description... Vol. 1: Constantinople intra and circa Muros
Review of Skarlatos Byzantios, Constantinople: A Topographical, Archaeological & Historical Description... Vol. 1: Constantinople intra and circa Muros. Translation and Commentary by Haris Theodorelis-Rigas with a Foreword by Stephanos Pesmazoglou. Istanbul: İstos, 2019 [1851]
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- Notes
1 See indicatively, Alexander G. Paspates, Hypomnēma peri
tou Graikikou Nosokomeiou tōn Hepta Pyrgōn, [A Note on
the Greek Hospital of the Seven Towers] (Athens: Lazaros
Vilaras Publishers, 1862), 41-42; Sir Richard Francis Burton,
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Madinah and
Meccah, vol. 1 (London: Longman, Brown and Green and
Longmans, 1893), 12; Alexander Van Millingen, Byzantine
Constantinople, the Walls of the City and Adjoining Historical
Sites (London: J. Murray, 1899), 199, 254; F. W. Hasluck,
Christianity and Islam under the Sultans (Istanbul: The Isis
Press, 2000), 96.
- 2 See Stephanos Pesmazoglou, “Skarlatos Vyzantios’s
Konstantinoupolis: Difference and Fusion,” in Economy
and Society on Both Sides of the Aegean, ed. Lorans Tanatar
Baruh and Vangelis Kechriotis (Athens: Alpha Bank Historical
Archives, 2010), 25. Pesmazoglou is currently preparing a
comprehensive monograph on Skarlatos Byzantios in Greek,
which aspires to elucidate the details of Skarlatos’ life through
extensive archival work, especially the dates of his residency
in Constantinople, Paris, and Athens.
- 3 Pesmazoglou, “Foreword,” in Constantinople, ix.
- 4 Ibid., viii.
- 5 Pesmazoglou, “Skarlatos Vyzantios’s Konstantinoupolis,” 26.
- 6 Robert Darnton, The Business of Enlightenment: A
Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800 (Cambridge:
Belknap Press, 1979), 520.
- 7 Patriarch Konstantios, Konstantinias, Palaia kai Neōtera
[Constantiniad: Ancient and Modern Constantinople]
(Venice: 1820). The book was published in French, English,
Ottoman Turkish, and Karamanlidika within a scope of
fifty years. An Ottoman Turkish manuscript, dated to
1860–1861, is in the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation
Collection.
- 8 In his preface to volume two, Skarlatos claimed that the
belated arrival of the second volume was due to reasons
beyond his control, such as the Crimean War (1853–1856).
He adds however that this delay was a blessing in disguise,
since it allowed for significant improvement and revision
of his manuscript (p. α).
- 9 BOA, A.}AMD 75/44 (1273 [1856/1857]) and BOA, A.}DVN
125/42 (18 Zilhicce 1273 [9 Ağustos 1857]).
- 10 Pesmazoglou, “Foreword,” xvi.
- 11 J. B. Bury, “Appendix,” in Edward Gibbon, The History
of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 3, ed. J. B.
Bury (New York: Fred de Fau & Co, 1906), 421.
- 12 Andreas Mordtman, Bios Alexandrou Paspate (Istanbul:
Ellēnikos Philologikos Syllogos, 1893), 13-18.
- 13 Ibid., 15.