ISBN10: 0333496000, ISBN13: 9780333496008, [publisher: MacMillan, EB] Hardcover Hardcover. 8vo. Macmillan and Co, London, 1912. 1935. Xxix, 352 pages. Illustrated with black and white illustrations, plans and maps. First Edition/First Printing. Ex-lib item with typical marks (bookplate present to the reverse of the front board, punched library stamp present to the title page) Bound in cloth boards with vignette present to the front board and titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (board edges scuffed and worn). Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This volume is a sequel to the work I published, several years ago, under the title, Byzantine Constantinople the Walls of the City, and adjoining Historical Sites. In that work the city was viewed, mainly, as the citadel of the Roman Empire in the East, and the bulwark of civilization for more than a thousand years. But the city of Constantinople was not only a mighty fortress. It was, moreover, the centre of a great religious community, which elaborated dogmas, fostered forms of piety, and controlled an ecclesiastical administration that have left a profound impression upon the thought and life of mankind. New Rome was a Holy City. It was crowded with churches, hallowed, it was believed, by the remains of the apostles, prophets, saints, and martyrs of the Catholic Church shrines at which men gathered to worship, from near and far, as before the ga ...