Constantinople: 'glorious, if ill-fated, beginnings' - Associate Professor Nigel Westbrook.
The Great Palace was arguably one of the most architecturally influential building complexes in history. The palaces in Rome, and all the European palaces all indirectly owe their genealogy to the Great Palace and it was one of the main intermediaries between West and East - the Mediterranean world, Northern Europe, and the empires of Persia and later the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates. - Thank you to Nigel Westbrook for kindly presenting this lecture to the Roman Archaeology Group, Perth.
The Great Palace was arguably one of the most architecturally influential building complexes in history. The palaces in Rome, and all the European palaces all indirectly owe their genealogy to the Great Palace and it was one of the main intermediaries between West and East - the Mediterranean world, Northern Europe, and the empires of Persia and later the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates. - Thank you to Nigel Westbrook for kindly presenting this lecture to the Roman Archaeology Group, Perth.