Bettany Hughes | Istanbul, Constantinople, Byzantium - the Queen of Cities
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2021
- In the sixth Ramsay Lecture for 2021, world-famous historian, author and broadcaster, Professor Bettany Hughes OBE, takes us on ‘dazzling historical journey through the many incarnations of one of the world’s greatest cities’ - Istanbul.
In her lecture, Istanbul, Constantinople, Byzantium - the Queen of Cities, Professor Hughes draws upon her in-depth research, shares new archaeological discoveries, ancient stories and geographic insights to illuminate Istanbul’s past as the cradle of civilisation formerly known as both Constantinople and Byzantium. Bettany discusses the various cultures, religions, and peoples that have inhabited and blended the city over time. She examines the introduction of Christianity and the Ottoman take-over whilst delving deeply into the city’s proud history of asylum and its record on social justice. Please join us on this journey through a city that is known as the gateway between the East and the West.
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You are amazing, I am tour guide in İstanbul and you have learned many things from you and I have been experiencing my city much more better after reading your book. Thank you.
Bettany Hughes is an historian Goddess, her documentaries were a Godsend over the pandemic
True. She is wonderful.
There are very, very few presenters that I download for nights I can't sleep and need some good company. My beloved next to me sleeps like the dead. No matter how boring the title may be, Bettany has the ability to make it wonderful. Thank you Bettany, you have made an old man happy many times.
Absolutely love Bettany and her work!! I've seen all the documentaries she's presented over & over and they're just as good every time!!
Brilliant, I must say it is always nice watching my son, ( 13 year old) take notes on your lectures for further studies.....inspiring a new generation of historians.
Bettany is a superstar of Historywood, and a great lecturer. I'm a proud İstanbul born history freak, and I live in Anatolian part, Kadıköy, 20 min walk to Khalkedon. I will get the book about Istanbul as soon as I can. Thank you for this.
Napoleon could not have used the word ISTANBUL as in was Constantinople until 1920s
❤ lovely great lecture
Dear Professor, you are brilliant! I have no word to describe your great value in terms of education, I'm addicted to you.
She's so beautiful, inside and out.
Not out.
Merci Boucoup❤
As an ex-Istanbulite, it is a pleasure to discover a little more
Thank you
Where you are at now?
Excellent B - I learned more from your vid than the classes I have taken! Looking good B!
Love this lady. So informative ,interesting and easy on the optic!
Hi Bettany! Don’t know if you will see this or not but wanted to reach out to you. I loved this lecture, very interesting and informative. Have also viewed many of your tours and especially liked the Nile trip. I love the passion you have for your subject matters it really makes them stand out. Not wanting to be coarse but you are a beautiful lady as well.
Her book is also very good. (I live in Istanbul and learned many about it from her book. )
Napoleon could not have used the word ISTANBUL as in was Constantinople until 1920s,
God i lo e her lectures
.. i wish i had professors like that
She lives history !
Terrific lecture! Bought the book.
Well that was good! Fascinating, informative and well presented. Thank you.
Bettany is a legend, so glad you enjoyed it! We have another one just out from Bettany titled 'Socrates and his Athens'. Be sure to check it out!
such a wonder lecture
Thankyou Bettany,we don’t have a choice not to want to learn.
love Bettany and her work
I have absolutely loved Bettany programmes. She's so natural and teaches with ease. What a wonderful lady and historian. She fires one's imagination and think she's awesome.
I can’t write about history until ive been there! So true and should be a requirement of all historians.
Great work Bettany, thanks
thankyou ms. hughes professor
Grafiti that was on the beginning of this lecture is in fact political statement of the nacionalistic Turks. Thay want to tell that they are rightful heir of Roman legacy.
Except for this, lecture was awesome.
Loved the documentaries especially on Turkey. It's an amazing country but, My friend gets upset when I mention anything on Turkey because she is Greek.
My favorite Hellenophile momma
Getting Turcophile in this documentary and others...
Thanks for video keep going 🤠 greeting from Morocco
Love the history, but less enamoured with the constant retro-fitting of modern movements/ideologies - like "social justice" - on to the past.
Thank you🙌🏻✨👏
Prof. Hughes, whom I have followed via Smithsonian Channel, shares captivating knowledge in a way that is fun and interesting to learn. I enjoy learning history often and am very happy to find this Ramsay Centre video. Thank you.
Difficult to pay attention as I am distracted by the up front display
I didn't know Russia is next to Bosphorus. Well, life is a learning curve
I really wish I could have gotten into there vaults I've heard enough to know how Doctors of medicine were credited to themselves as "Ottomans".. Establishment..which was rank...as much as much of the accomplishments of Moors great universities suddenly became owned by all those books..."they didn't actually burn"...and conscripted less brown or black translators from Tunis and Algeria etc
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What if…the Greeks won their mother city back with major parts of Anatolia? Would Ottomans have flourished under Greek rule? We know the opposite happened to the Greeks.
Ms. Hughes, the original meaning of cosmopolitan means a citizen of the world. Not a city connected to the world. It was coined by the philosopher Diogenes who used the word to describe himself.
Napoleon could not have used the word ISTANBUL as in was Constantinople until 1920s, Ms Hughes. I am sure you know this.
The Thracians were Greeks, just like the Macedonians. In fact Thrace reached the East Side of Mt, Olympus to the West, and the Danube to the North.
I wouldn't call the Thracians Greeks... different language and pantheon.
Oh yes I remember her ......all about Spain...conquered supposedly for a Cristian conquest no different then apparently the invaders into Constantinople as Muslim conquest as well......not real convergence people but both city's Rome turned it's back on to Destroy...the best in civilization
I loved my childhood in Istanbul untill my late teenage years.
Whent to school there. Mi now byzantinian/Ottoman man,have that heritage?😊
beautiful woman
Not really.
And Moor's Spain out of Africa as first African Europeans
I've heard enough from her and B B C fascist!
Dear Bettany there are so many objections to what you have said in this video!
First of all, the Ottoman Istanbul has been the very antithesis of the (predominantly Greek) Constantinople! Constantinople was one of the brightest (if not the brightest) intellectual and cultural lighthouses all over the world, for almost a thousand years! But ever since the Ottoman Turks besieged and captured Constantinople (turning it into "Istanbul"), they have produced very few to none intellectual achievements! They mostly appropriated the Persian, the Arabic and the Byzantine cultures!
Even the notorious "Blue Mosque" that you presented in your video as a big feat of ottoman architecture is actually a clear copying of the superb "Haghia Sophia" church - which was built a 1000 years before the Blue Mosque!
I totally agree with what you've been stating at the end of the video: ""(Constantinople/Istanbul) is a city that understands that we can only thrive if we communicate across borders and boundaries and if we welcome other influences, other people, other ideas."" The sad fact is though that the Turkish Istanbul has been the very antithesis of that too!
You see, there were more than 200.000 Greeks living in Constantinople by the beginning of the 20th century! They were not "immigrants" there, they were living in the very city of their ancestors! But due to various types of persecutions and even pogroms from the part of the Turkish state, the Greeks were forced to abandon their beloved city and move to mainland Greece or some other country! Today there are left only 1500 Greeks in Constantinople/Istanbul! So much for a "cosmopolis"...
She is not allowed to mention those things! 🤫 We all know why.
And I always admired Bettany, but I think she has dropped the ball here for sure!!!
Almost every important monument is Hellenic 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Absolutely! No amount of Propaganda will ever change that!