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The Shadow of Constantinople: the New Rome and the Old from Constantine to Constans II

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D. Burgersdijk, F. Gerritsen, & W. Waal (eds), Constantinople Through the Ages

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Most studies of the relationship between Constantinople and Rome focus on how the new city developed in ways that imitated the old, by examining topographical similarities and the development of institutions (both secular and ecclesiastical) that brought the two cities to some degree of parity. Yet...

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Published in: D. Burgersdijk, F. Gerritsen, & W. Waal (eds), Constantinople Through the Ages
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