Travel in the Byzantine World : Papers from the Thirty-Fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000 / edited by Ruth Macrides.
Travel in the Byzantine World :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781315235646 (e-book : PDF)
9781351877657 (e-book: Mobi)
9780754607885 (hardback)
9781351877657 (e-book: Mobi)
9780754607885 (hardback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/0557
Basım Bildirimi
First edition.
Yayın Bilgisi
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (316 pages)
Dizi
Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
Genel Not
First published 2002 by Variorium, Ashgate.
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Includes bibliographical references.
İçindekiler Notu
part Introduction -- chapter 1 M. McCormick Byzantium on the move: imagining a communications history -- part Section 1: Going there — the technicalities of travel -- chapter 2 J. H. Pryor Types of ships and their performance capabilities -- chapter 3 P. Gautier Dalché Portulans and the Byzantine world -- chapter 4 K. Belke Roads and travel in Macedonia and Thrace in the middle and late Byzantine period -- chapter 5 A. McCabe Horses and horse-doctors on the road -- chapter 6 D. Ch. Stathakopoulos Travelling with the plague -- part Section II: Getting around — the purposes o f travel -- chapter 7 J. Koder Maritime trade and the food supply for Constantinople in the middle ages -- chapter 8 N. Gunsenin Medieval trade in the Sea of Marmara: the evidence of shipwrecks -- chapter 9 F. van Doominck, jr The Byzantine ship at Serge Limaiu: an example of small-scale maritime commerce with Fatimid Syria in the early eleventh century -- chapter 10 A. Kuelzer Byzantine and early post-Byzantine pilgrimage to the Holy Land and to Mount Sinai -- part Section III: Being there -- chapter 11 K. Ciggaar Bilingual word lists and phrase lists: for teaching or for travelling? -- chapter 12 A. Berger Sightseeing in Constantinople: Arab travellers, c. 900-1300 -- chapter 13 R. Macrides Constantinople: the crusaders' gaze -- chapter 14 M. Angold The decline of Byzantium seen through the eyes of western travellers -- part Section IV: Going over it — representations of travel and space -- chapter 15 L. Brubaker The conquest of space -- chapter 16 M. E. Mullett In peril on the sea: travel genres and the unexpected.
Özet, vb.
“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.“--Provided by publisher.
Konu
Travel, medieval __ Congresses.
Byzantine Empire __ Civilization __ Congresses.
Byzantine Empire __ Description and travel __ Congresses.
Byzantine Empire __ Civilization __ Congresses.
Byzantine Empire __ Description and travel __ Congresses.
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