The Monastery of Pantokrator in the Narratives of Western Travellers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. History
6. The Komnenoi and Constantinople before the Building of the Pantokrator Complex 3
7. The Foundation of the Pantokrator Monastery in Its Urban Setting 33
8. The Monastery of Pantokrator between 1204 and 1453 57
9. Byzantine Officials in the Typikon of the Monastery of Christ Pantokrator in Constantinople 71
10. References to the Monastery of Pantokrator in Old Slavic Literature (14th-15th c.) 83
11. The Monastery of Pantokrator in the Narratives of Western Travellers 97
12. Texts
13. George Skylitzes’ Office on the Translation of the Holy Stone 109
14. The Icon of the Three Holy Hierarchs at the Pantokrator Monastery and the Epigramms of Theodore Prodromos on Them 143
15. Feasts at the Monastery of Pantokrator 153
16. Empress Piroska-Eirene’s Collaborators in the Foundation of the Pantokrator Monastery: The Testimony of Nikolaos Kataphloron 191
17. Das Pantokratorkloster von Konstantinopel in der byzantinischen Dichtung 203
18. Selected bibliography on the monastery of Christ Pantokrator 251
19. Index 255
20. Plates 265