This study of Constantinople's monasteries within their urban framework during the last decades of Byzantium (1394-1453) explores the activity of monks, nuns, and affiliated laypeople such as patrons just before the city's Ottoman conquest and transformation into the capital of an Islamic Empire.
This study of Constantinople's monasteries within their urban framework during the last decades of Byzantium (1394-1453) explores the activity of monks, nuns, and affiliated laypeople such as patrons just before the city's Ottoman conquest and transformation into the capital of an Islamic Empire.