『アレクシアド』に見る12世紀のコンスタンティノープルにおける再開発

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According to the description of the Alexiad, the seventh chapter of the fifteenth volume, written by Anna Comnena, the so-called "new city"(νεα πολιs) was constructed within Constantinople under the supervision of the emperor Alexios. This paper clarifies the characteristic of the "city" and the idea of the project. As the result, the "city" in circular shape seems to have been constructed in the land near the sea wall facing the Marmara, where the Monastery of Mangana must have been involved. The circular city, being defensive to the outside as a "kastron" and furthermore being probably surrounded with the land for cultivation, of all things, functioned as philanthropic facilities for the people who had to a certain extent some social disadvantage. The "city" within the city emerged as a self-sufficient community. Inspite of the official purpose for the enterprize, if examined carefully on the content of the description, the project is presumed to have aimed a segregation and an estrangement of those people in its idea, for the security to the ordinary city-space spreading outside
社団法人日本建築学会の論文
1996-04-30