The tombs of the Palaiologan emperors

2018/09/05 by Nicholas Melvani · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Byzantine Studies and History #Balkans: History, Politics, Society #Historical and Religious Studies of Rome #Ancient history #History #Period (music) #Classics #Plan (archaeology) #Art #Archaeology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/byz.2018.7

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Abstract

This article examines textual and material evidence regarding the burials of emperors during the Palaiologan period. It is argued that the Palaiologos dynasty did not initially have a plan to establish an imperial mausoleum: the monastery of Lips, re-founded by Theodora Palaiologina and often regarded by modern scholars as an imperial mausoleum, was instead conceived as a family shrine. Small-scale attempts to establish imperial mausolea are discernible only from the middle of the fourteenth century onwards, with the burials of Andronikos III and John V in the monastery of ton Hodegon and of the last Palaiologoi in the Pantokrator.

Citations

• New evidence for the Byzantine Church of the Holy Apostles from Fatih Camii, Istanbul
• The Tombs of the Byzantine Emperors at the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople
• The Restoration of Constantinople under Michael VIII
• Empress Theodora Palaiologina, Wife of Michael VIII
• Byzantine Churches of Selymbria

Cited by

• Andreas Palaiologos [wikipedia]
• Thomas Palaiologos [wikipedia]

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