The Emperor's House : : Palaces from Augustus to the Age of Absolutism / / ed. by Michael Featherstone, Jean-Michel Spieser, Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt, Gülru Tanman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Angar, Mabi,; Arce, Javier,; Artan, Tülay,; Berger, Albrecht,; Boltunova, Ekaterina,; Featherstone, Michael,; Frommel, Sabine,; Hellenkemper, Hansgerd,; Herrin, Judith,; Hunt, Lucy-Anne,; Karner, Herbert,; Klein, Holger A.,; Krause, Katharina,; Ley, Judith,; Luchterhandt, Manfred,; Macrides, Ruth,; Magdalino, Paul,; Niewöhner, Philipp,; Olin, Martin,; Penkova, Bisserka,; Redford, Scott,; Renoux, Annie,; Spieser, Jean-Michel,; Untermann, Matthias,; Wahlgren, Staffan,; Wulf-Rheidt, Ulrike,
• HerausgeberIn: Featherstone, Michael,; Spieser, Jean-Michel,; Tanman, Gülru,; Wulf-Rheidt, Ulrike,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Urban Spaces , 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)

Evolving from a patrician domus, the emperor's residence on the Palatine became the centre of the state administration. Elaborate ceremonial regulated access to the imperial family, creating a system of privilege which strengthened the centralised power. Constantine followed the same model in his new capital, under a Christian veneer. The divine attributes of the imperial office were refashioned, with the emperor as God's representative. The palace was an imitation of heaven.Following the loss of the empire in the West and the Near East, the Palace in Constantinople was preserved – subject to the transition from Late Antique to Mediaeval conditions – until the Fourth Crusade, attracting the attention of Visgothic, Lombard, Merovingian, Carolingian, Norman and Muslim rulers. Renaissance princes later drew inspiration for their residences directly from ancient ruins and Roman literature, but there was also contact with the Late Byzantine court. Finally, in the age of Absolutism the palace became again an instrument of power in vast centralised states, with renewed interest in Roman and Byzantine ceremonial.Spanning the broadest chronological and geographical limits of the Roman imperial tradition, from the Principate to the Ottoman empire, the papers in the volume treat various aspects of palace architecture, art and ceremonial.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Part I: Antiquity and Late Antiquity -- The Palace of the Roman Emperors on the Palatine in Rome -- Réflexions sur le Palais de Galère à Thessalonique -- The late Late Antique origins of Byzantine palace architecture -- The Imperial Palace of Ravenna -- The So-Called visigothic “Palatium” of Recópolis (Spain): An Archaeological and Historical Analysis -- Part II: The Middle Ages in the West -- Vom Haus des Bischofs zum Locus Sanctus: Der Lateranpalast im kulturellen Gedächtnis des römischen Mittelalters -- Du palais impérial aux palais royaux et princiers en Francie occidentale (c 843–1100) -- Frühmittelalterliche Pfalzen im ostfränkischen Reich -- Aquis palatium: Spätantiker Palast oder frühmittelalterliche Pfalz? Architekturhistorische Überlegungen zur Ikonographie der Aachener Pfalz -- Part III: The Middle Ages in the East -- The Everyday Palace in the Tenth Century -- The “other” palace in Constantinople: the Blachernai -- The People and the Palace -- Furniture and Imperial Ceremony in the Great Palace: Revisiting the pentapyrgion -- The Crown of His Kingdom: Imperial Ideology, Palace Ritual, and the Relics of Christ’s Passion -- Remembering the Palace in Byzantine Chronicles -- Die Paläste der bulgarischen Zaren in Preslav und Tarnovo -- Anatolian Seljuk Palaces and Gardens -- Politische Orte? Kaiserliche Sommerpaläste in Konstantinopel -- John of Ibelin’s Audience Hall in Beirut: A Crusader palace building between Byzantine and Islamic Art in its Mediterranean Context -- Part IV: The Renaissance, Absolutism and the Ottoman World -- Der Louvre als Haus eines Nachfolgers römischer Imperatoren: Der Neubau der mittelalterlichen Festung unter Franz I. und Heinrich II. -- The Palace of Charles XII. Architecture and Absolutism in Sweden around 1700 -- Die Wiener Paläste der Habsburger in der Frühen Neuzeit: Kaiserlich – Imperial – Römisch -- Imperial Throne Halls and Discourse of Power in the Topography of Early Modern Russia (late 17th–18th centuries) -- „Vous y verrez l'Ancienne et la Nouvelle Rome“. Versailles als Summe aller Paläste -- The politics of Ottoman imperial palaces: waqfs and architecture from the 16th to the 18th centuries -- Part V: Epilogue -- Byzantium in Bavaria? Ludwig II. and the Great Palace of Constantinople -- Participants