Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . CH. ix] LATER BYZANTINE BUILDINGS 141 Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (912-958) may possiblybe correct, though I should be disposed to date it ratherlater. It is not likely at all events that such a buildingwould have been erected after the desolating conquestof the Empire by the Crusaders in 1204. Constantinople never recovered the blow given by The Latinthe Latin conquest, and during the 200 years that elapsed i^nhr4thbetween the return of the Palaeologi and the taking of ^^^^^^^the city by the Moslems, the boundaries of the Empiregradually shrank till
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . CH. ix] LATER BYZANTINE BUILDINGS 141 Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (912-958) may possiblybe correct, though I should be disposed to date it ratherlater. It is not likely at all events that such a buildingwould have been erected after the desolating conquestof the Empire by the Crusaders in 1204. Constantinople never recovered the blow given by The Latinthe Latin conquest, and during the 200 years that elapsed i^nhr4thbetween the return of the Palaeologi and the taking of ^^^^^^^the city by the Moslems, the boundaries of the Empiregradually shrank till little remained but the town itself,. Fig. 35- which safe behind its mighty walls defied all attackstill the advent of Mahomets cannon. But before then Constantinople had evidently sunk Decaymuch below the splendour of the days of Justinian or Empir!even those of the I saurian and Macedonian condition of any mediaeval city would have beendisgusting to modern ideas. One reads that the clerksat Oxford frequently complained of the unwholesomenessof the town. Beasts were slaughtered at Carfax and otherpublic places, and chandlers polluted the air by meltingtallow in the streets. The thoroughfares were deep in 142 LATER BYZANTINE BUILDINGS [ch. ix mire and filth and the water used for baking and brewingwas drawn from streams into which the town poured itssewage. Constantinople would have been no better thanOxford and other European cities of the period and may-even have added some of the squalor of an Oriental de Chartres at the end of the nth century-Accounts speaks with wonder of the stately build
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