Hagia Sophia: The Wisdom of God as Offered to the Modern World presents a "collection of essays that explore and focus upon God as Wisdom Itself."--Publisher de

Hagia Sophia, the Church of Holy Wisdom, sits majestically atop the plateau that commands the straits separating Europe and Asia. Located near the acropolis of

Examines the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia. Drawing on art and architectural history, liturgy, musicology, and acoustics

Hagia Sophia in Constantinople was the culminating architectural achievement of late antiquity. Author Rowland Mainstone draws on some 30 years' of detailed obs

An archaeological re-examination of the cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople, with fresh evidence about the appearance and function of the complex enabling us