Term beings...

[annwfyn]

*sighs*

You can tell I'm back in Oxford.

I got back today to discover a nice package from my supervisor for this term. She wants me to write an essay and hand it in by Wednesday 19th. That, for the record, is the day after my first lecture of the course.

Does anyone out there know anything about the architecture of the early christian church?

I am apparently about to find out.

I shall be enthused! I shall view this as a challenge! And it will all be good.

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[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. There is a test. Go on. Tell me more!

On the plus side I am now accessible via e mail and LJ. I'm back in a place with actual internet access.

[ksirafai.livejournal.com]

Oooh... If I had email access, I'd be so happy. Any gossip must therefore be Suitable For Public Consumption, about early churches (and amethyst only has one 'y' - sorry... *meek*), or on LJ somewhere.

Um. As for more...

If you're serious, I can happily Google lots; otherwise it's a subject you know way more about than me. :)

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

If you find early church architecture in Byzantium at all interesting then feel free to chatter with me about it. Otherwise I shall probably be fairly happy crawling down to the library in a bit and burying myself in there until I have found out Stuff (tm).

And I shall try and think of new and shiny gossip. What has happened to your e mail access btw?

[ksirafai.livejournal.com]

I don't know. It sort of Went Away in an odd manner - sometimes it lets me load up my inbox and do one thing before freezing up, sometimes it doens't evne let me log in. I still can't get gmail to work...

And a) geographically whereabouts, b) historically during which periods? This is mainly because wikipedia is an entertaining and random source that sometimes throws up cool links... :) I find most stuff interesting. You're under no obligation to pander to that, though. :P

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Byzantium is the area, and time-wise I'm looking at the 6th and 7th centuries. I'm quite quite happy to encourage anyone to talk to me. It makes the entire research process loads more interesting.

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

Well, if that's your time period...

Probably Istanbul's most famous landmark, the Hagia Sophia (also spelled Ayasofya) was built by the emperor Justinian I in the year 537 AD. Built in only six years, the structure was designed by the architects Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus. On May 7, 558, the dome of the church collapsed due to a December 557 earthquake, and though a new dome was quickly rebuilt, historical records tell us that it was not identical to the original.

[ksirafai.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Christianity - see sections on the right period/place and follow the links through.

http://users.macunlimited.net/maniguide/churcharch.html - modern Eastern Orthodox Church info; possibly history in addition.

http://www.bartleby.com/65/by/ByzantinANA.html - Lecture notes for a uni course on the period/place.

It actually loks quite shiny...

[ksirafai.livejournal.com]

Likewise http://historymedren.about.com/cs/byzantinestudies/a/forgotten.htm - generic Byzantine history

http://www.patriarchate.org/ecumenical_patriarchate/chapter_4/html/hagia_sophia.html - history of the Hagia Sophia, which appears to be slap bang in the middle of your period and one of the only large religious buildings created for the Greek Orthodoxy. And it has the coolest named website. I want to be part of the patriarchate.org now. :P

And since I know exactly how little help net sources can be without a reasonable amount of time, I'll stop throwing links at you. :)