Travel in the Byzantine World

Travel in the Byzantine World

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

Macrides, Ruth

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2002

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Contents: Preface; Introduction: Byzantium on the move: imagining a communications history, M. McCormick; Going There - the Technicalities of Travel: Types of ships and their performance capabilities, J. H. Pryor; Portulans and the Byzantine world, P. Gautier Dalche; Roads and travel in Macedonia and Thrace in the middle and late Byzantine period, K. Belke; Horses and horse-doctors on the road, A. McCabe; Travelling with the plague, D. Ch. Stathakopoulos; Getting Around - the Purposes of Travel: Maritime trade and the food supply for Constantinople in the Middle Ages, J. Koder; Medieval trade in the sea of Marmara: the evidence of shipwrecks, N. GA1/4nsenin; The Byzantine ship at SerA?e Limani: an example of small-scale maritime commerce with Fatimid Syria in the early 11th century, F. van Doorninck, jr.; Byzantine and early post-Byzantine pilgrimage to the Holy Land and to Mount Sinai, A. Kuelzer; Being There: Bilingual word lists and phrase lists: for teaching or for travelling?, K. Ciggaar; Sightseeing in Constantinople: Arab travellers, c. 900-1300, A. Berger; Constantinople: the crusaders' gaze, R. Macrides; The decline of Byzantium seen through the eyes of western travellers, M. Angold; Going Over It - Representations of Travel and Space: The conquest of space, L. Brubaker; In peril on the sea: travel genres and the unexpected, M. E. Mullett; Index.
Otto III;A. Berger;Young Man;A. Kuelzer;Villehardouin;A. Mccabe;Niketas Magistros;D. Ch. Stathakopoulos;Holy Mountain;F. Van Doorninck;Monastic Typika;J. H. Pryor;Manuel Palaiologos;J. Koder;Holy Man;K. Belke;Madaba Map;K. Ciggaar;Byzantine Amphoras;L. Brubaker;Pero Tafur;M. Angold;Chalkidike Peninsula;M. E. Mullett;Andronikos II;M. Mccormick;Constantine Manasses;N. GNsenin;Athos Monasteries;Wine Amphoras;R. Macrides;Marmara Island;Phrase Lists;Terra Sancta;Bertrandon De La;Justinianic Plague;Byzantine Pilgrimage;Ancient DNA;Raw Linen;Home Town