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The Imperial University of Constantinople, sometimes known as the University of the Palace Hall of Magnaura (Greek: Πανδιδακτήριον τῆς Μαγναύρας), was an Eastern Roman educational institution that could trace its corporate origins to 425 AD, when the emperor Theodosius II founded the Pandidacterium (Medieval Greek ...
The University of Constantinople was founded in the 5th century and contained artistic and literary treasures before it was sacked in 1204 and 1453, [10] including its vast Imperial Library which contained the remnants of the Library of Alexandria and had 100,000 volumes. [11]
In the early period Rome, Athens, and Alexandria were the main centers of learning, but were overtaken in the 5th century by the new capital, Constantinople.After the Platonic Academy closed in 529, only a few other important centers remained apart from Constantinople such as Law school of Berytus for legal studies and the Rhetorical school of Gaza with its focus on rhetoric and classical ...
Anthemius of Tralles; Stephen of Alexandria; John Mauropous; Patriarch Photius I of Constantinople taught Greek Philosophy.; Saint Constantine-Cyril; Maximus the Confessor; Michael Psellos
The activity of higher schools revived, and the faculties of law and philosophy of the University of Constantinople played an important role in the scientific and cultural life of the capital (the university is usually called the school founded in 855 by the emperor's uncle Bardas and the outstanding scientist Leo the Mathematician, which was ...
Some scholars have claimed that the Magnaura was founded in 425 A.D. during the reign of Emperor Theodosius II. [5] However, others dispute this assertion on the grounds that it arises from an incorrect conflation of the University of Constantinople with the later palace school (ekpaideutērion) housed at the Magnaura that was founded by caesar Bardas in the mid-9th century.
The origins of Istanbul University date back to 1453, [13] [3] when it was founded by Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II as a school of philosophy, medicine, law and letters. [13] The University of Constantinople, established in 425 CE by the Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II as the Pandidacterium, later became known as the Phanar Greek Orthodox College after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
The Chrysotriklinos (Greek: Χρυσοτρίκλινος, "golden reception hall", cf. triclinium), Latinized as Chrysotriclinus or Chrysotriclinium, was the main reception and ceremonial hall of the Great Palace of Constantinople from its construction, in the late 6th century, until the 10th century.