Patria Konstantinupoleos: Imagined Topography of the City in the Middle Byzantine Period

Student: Kravchenko Andrei

Educational Programme: Historical Knowledge (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

The main purpose of this work is to analyze the main types of spatial relations and ways of contextualizing elements of the urban landscape on the basis of the content of the Patria of Constantinople. As residents of the Constantinople of the X century. how they represented their common urban space, in which categories they thought, what places and events were noted, participants of what cultural, social or political practices were set up.

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