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 h...

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