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      Papers from the Thirty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000

      Travel in the Byzantine World

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      Travel in the Byzantine World book

      Papers from the Thirty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000
      Edited ByRuth Macrides
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2002
      eBook Published 26 May 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315235646
      Pages 316
      eBook ISBN 9781315235646
      Subjects Humanities
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      Macrides, R. (Ed.). (2002). Travel in the Byzantine World: Papers from the Thirty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000 (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315235646

      ABSTRACT

      The contributions to this volume have been selected from the papers delivered at the 34th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies at Birmingham, in April 2000. Travellers to and in the Byzantine world have long been a subject of interest but travel and communications in the medieval period have more recently attracted scholarly attention. This book is the first to bring together these two lines of enquiry. Four aspects of travel in the Byzantine world, from the sixth to the fifteenth century, are examined here: technicalities of travel on land and sea, purposes of travel, foreign visitors' perceptions of Constantinople, and the representation of the travel experience in images and in written accounts. Sources used to illuminate these four aspects include descriptions of journeys, pilot books, bilingual word lists, shipwrecks, monastic documents, but as the opening paper shows the range of such sources can be far wider than generally supposed. The contributors highlight road and travel conditions for horses and humans, types of ships and speed of sea journeys, the nature of trade in the Mediterranean, the continuity of pilgrimage to the Holy Land, attitudes toward travel. Patterns of communication in the Mediterranean are revealed through distribution of ceramic finds, letter collections, and the spread of the plague. Together, these papers make a notable contribution to our understanding both of the evidence for travel, and of the realities and perceptions of communications in the Byzantine world. Travel in the Byzantine World is volume 10 in the series published by Ashgate/Variorum on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part |29 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 1|27 pages

      Byzantium on the move: imagining a communications history

      ByM. McCormick

      part I|76 pages

      Going there — the technicalities of travel

      chapter 2|26 pages

      Types of ships and their performance capabilities*

      ByJ. H. Pryor

      chapter 3|13 pages

      Portulans and the Byzantine world

      ByP. Gautier Dalché

      chapter 4|18 pages

      Roads and travel in Macedonia and Thrace in the middle and late Byzantine period*

      ByK. Belke

      chapter 5|7 pages

      Horses and horse-doctors on the road

      ByA. McCabe

      chapter 6|8 pages

      Travelling with the plague*

      ByD. Ch. Stathakopoulos

      part II|55 pages

      Getting around — the purposes of travel

      chapter 7|16 pages

      Maritime trade and the food supply for Constantinople in the middle ages*

      ByJ. Koder

      chapter 8|11 pages

      Medieval trade in the Sea of Marmara: the evidence of shipwrecks

      ByN. Günsenin

      chapter 9|12 pages

      The Byzantine ship at Serçe Limanı: an example of small-scale maritime commerce with Fatimid Syria in the early eleventh century

      ByF. van Doorninck

      chapter 10|13 pages

      Byzantine and early post-Byzantine pilgrimage to the Holy Land and to Mount Sinai

      ByA. Kuelzer

      part III|70 pages

      Being there

      chapter 11|14 pages

      Bilingual word lists and phrase lists: for teaching or for travelling?

      ByK. Ciggaar

      chapter 12|13 pages

      Sightseeing in Constantinople: Arab travellers, c. 900-1300

      ByA. Berger

      chapter 13|20 pages

      Constantinople: the crusaders' gaze

      ByR. Macrides

      chapter 14|20 pages

      The decline of Byzantium seen through the eyes of western travellers

      ByM. Angold

      part IV|52 pages

      Going over it — representations of travel and space

      chapter 15|23 pages

      The conquest of space*

      ByL. Brubaker

      chapter 16|26 pages

      In peril on the sea: travel genres and the unexpected

      ByM. E. Mullett
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