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Abbreviations; History; The Komnenoi and Constantinople before the Building of the Pantokrator Complex; The Foundation of the Pantokrator Monastery in Its Urban Setting; The Monastery of Pantokrator between 1204 and 1453; Byzantine Officials in the Typikon of the Monastery of Christ Pantokrator in Constantinople; References to the Monastery of Pantokrator in Old Slavic Literature (14th-15th c.); The Monastery of Pantokrator in the Narratives of Western Travellers; Texts; George Skylitzes' Office on the Translation of the Holy Stone. A Study and Critical Edition

The Icon of the Three Holy Hierarchs at the Pantokrator Monastery and the Epigramms of Theodore Prodromos on ThemFeasts at the Monastery of Pantokrator; Empress Piroska-Eirene's Collaborators in the Foundation of the Pantokrator Monastery: The Testimony of Nikolaos Kataphloron; Das Pantokratorkloster von Konstantinopel in der byzantinischen Dichtung; Selected bibliography; Index; Plates

This volume brings together a comprehensive selection of textual sources relating to the most important foundation of the Komnenian age, the Monastery of Pantokrator in Constantinople. These texts, many previously unpublished, offer information onthe historical and cultural context of Constantinople before and during the Monastery's founding, its associated officials, and festivals celebrated in its churches.