The Post-Byzantine Monuments of the Pontos

A Source Book

Anthony Bryer, David Winfield, Selina Ballance , Selina Ballance

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Variorum
03 May 2002

History of Art & Design Styles; Memorials, monuments; European history

Series: Variorum Collected Studies

This volume makes available a record of the post-Byzantine architecture and buildings - churches primarily, but also monasteries, bridges and schools - of the Pontos, the north-eastern coastlands of Anatolia. The region enjoyed two great periods of prosperity, first expressed in the richness of its buildings from the time of the Empire of Trebizond (1204-1461), and second in its no less remarkable but barely-known post-Byzantine monuments. This Pontic revival began in the 18th century, under the patronage of the silver-miners and bishops of Chaldia and flourished after the Trebizond-Tabriz route was opened to Western trade from 1829. It ended abruptly with the departure of the Pontic Greeks in 1923. In the 1950s-1970s the authors recorded several hundreds of abandoned monuments in 68 settlements in the former dioceses of Amasia, Neoceasarea, Chaldia, Trebizond and Rhodopolis, which since then have further deteriorated, if not disappeared. These accounts and illustrations, reproduced here from the original photographs, are therefore now often the only record of these astonishing buildings. The monuments are placed within their Ottoman social and economic context and their history illuminated by archival material, such as British consular reports from Trebizond.

By: Anthony Bryer, David Winfield, Selina Ballance, Selina Ballance
Imprint: Variorum
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 156mm
Weight: 911g
ISBN: 9780860788645
ISBN 10: 0860788644
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
Pages: 502
Publication Date: 03 May 2002
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents: Introduction; The Pontic Greeks before the diaspora; 19th-century monuments in the city and vilayet of Trebizond: architectural and historical notes, Parts 1-4; Appendices; Final note; Index; Greek summary.

Anthony Bryer, Emeritus Professor of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, UK with David Winfield, Selina Ballance, and Jane Isaac

Reviews for The Post-Byzantine Monuments of the Pontos: A Source Book

'... a splendid travel book. The breezes of the Pontus uplands can almost be felt as one reads.' The Tablet '... a well-written and readable account...' Architectural Science Review