Constantinople de Byzance a Istanbul by Stephane Yerasimos, 2000Hard cover, 400 p., French, 27*32 cm.Historian Stéphane Yerasimos devoted much of his life to tracing the deep time of Istanbul, a city built on layers of empire, faith, and memory. In Constantinople: De Byzance à Istanbul his scholarship meets the visual: a monumental book where text and image weave together the city’s transformations from Byzantium to the Ottoman capital.The volume pairs Yerasimos’s historical insight with the work of renowned photographers who capture Hagia Sophia’s shifting light, Ottoman domes, Byzantine mosaics, and the living texture of the modern metropolis.Printed on large, luminous pages, its graphic design and photography merge into a visual history of continuity.
