Σύνοψη βιβλίου
Stefanos Geroulanos, f. Professor of Surgery at the
University of Zurich and History of Medicine at the
University of Ioannina, follows the path of History
and exposes the Upper Part of the Pala d’ Oro (UPP)
for what it was.
Through clear detection he has established that the
UPP – until now unnoticed – is a request vow and
that the sponsor of this part of the magnificent Pala
d’ Oro must have been the Imperial couple John II
Komnenos and Piroska-Eirene, founders of the
Monastery of Pantokrator
in Constantinople, concluding that the beginning of
the construction of the UPP can be placed shortly
before 1134 and finished a little after 1136.