The 25 papers widen the conventional studies of the Byzantine capital from the walled city itself to the European and Asian hinterlands, discussing such aspects as the products of the land, its administration, the inhabitants, manufacturing and export, communications between the capital and the outlying territories, cultural and artistic manifestations, and the role of the sacred. Ten of the papers are in French. Distributed in the US by Ashgate. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
From its foundation, the city of Constantinople dominated the Byzantine world. It was the seat of the emperor, the centre of government and church, the focus of commerce and culture, by far the greatest urban centre; its needs in terms of supplies and defense imposed their own logic on the development of the empire. Byzantine Constantinople has traditionally been treated in terms of the walled city and its immediate suburbs. In this volume, containing 25 papers delivered at the 27th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held at Oxford in 1993, the perspective has been enlarged to encompass a wider geographical setting, that of the city’s European and Asiatic hinterland. Within this framework a variety of interconnected topics have been addressed, ranging from the bare necessities of life and defence to manufacture and export, communications between the capital and its hinterland, culture and artistic manifestations and the role of the sacred.
Contents: Section I: The water supply of Constantinople, C. Mango;
Lapprovisionnement de Constantinople, J. Durliat; The grain supply of
Constantinople, 9th-12th centuries, P. Magdalino; Fresh vegetables for the
capital, J. Koder; Poissons, pĆŖcheurs et poissonniers de Constantinople, G.
Dagron; Sectin II: La diffusion de la monnaie de Constantinople: routes
commerciales ou routes politiques?, C. Morrisson; Was there totalitarianism
in Byzantium? Constantinoples control over its Asiatic hinterland in the
early 9th century, I. S¯evcenko; Section III: The Long Walls of Thrace, J. G.
Crow; Procopius and Agathias on the defences of the Thracian Chersonese, G.
Greatrex; The siege of Constantinople in 626, J. D. Howard-Johnston;
Strategies of defence, problems of security: the garrisons of Constantinople
in the middle Byzantine period, J. F.Haldon; Economic conditions in
Constantinople during the siege of Bayezid I (1394-1402), N. Necipoglu;
Constantinople vue par les témoins du sičge du 1453, M. Balard; Section IV:
Nicomedia and Constantinople, C. Foss; Lhinterland religieux de
Constantinople: moines et saints de banlieue daprčs lhagiographie,
M.Kaplan; Les communications entre Constantinople et la Bithynie, J. Lefort;
Section V: The Jews of Constantinople and their demographic hinterland, D.
Jacoby; Venetian habitatores, burgenses and merchants in Constantinople and
its hinterland (12th-13th centuries) C.A Maltezou; Constantinople - gateway
to the north: the Russians, J. Shepard; Section VI: The Proconnesian
production of architectural elements in late antiquity, based on evidence
from the marble quarries, N. Asgari; La sculpture médio-byzantine: le marbre
en ersatz et tel quen lui-mĆŖme, J.-P. Sodini; Glazed Tiles of Nicomedia
in Bithynia, Constantinople and elsewhere, R. B. Mason and M. M. Mango; Glass
and glaze at medieval Constantinople: preliminary scientific evidence, J.
Henderson, M. M. Mango; Section VII: Les déplac
Cyril Mango, Emeritus, University of Oxford, UK, and Gilbert Dagron, College de France, Paris, France, with Geoffrey Greatrex C. Mango, J. Durliat, P. Magdalino, J. Koder, G. Dagron, C. Morrisson, I. S"evc"enko, J. G. Crow, G. Greatrex, J. D. Howard-Johnston, J. F.Haldon, N. Necipog"lu, M. Balard, C. Foss, M.Kaplan, J. Lefort, D. Jacoby, C.A Maltezou, J. Shepard, N. Asgari, J.-P. Sodini, R. B. Mason, M. M. Mango, J. Henderson, M.-Fr. Auzepy, D. Feissel, I. Hutter, P. Karlin-Hayter.
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