Constantinople and its HinterlandVariorum
edited by Cyril Mango and Gilbert Dagron
ISBN: 0860784878
price: $99.95 hardcover
From its foundation, the city of Constantinople dominated the
Byzantine world. It was the seat of the emperor, the center of
government and church, the focus of commerce and culture, by far
the greatest urban center. 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 Twenty-seventh 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
defense to manufacture and export, communications between the
capital and its hinterland, cultural and artistic manifestations
and the role of the sacred.
Constantinople and its Hinterland is the third volume in the
series published by Variorum on behalf of the Society for the
Promotion of Byzantine Studies.
Contents: Preface by Cyril Mango; List of Abbreviations; C.
Mango: Introduction; Section I: The land and its products: C.
Mango: The water supply of Constantinople; J. Durliat: L'
approvisionnement de Constantinople; P. Magdalino: The grain
supply of Constantinople, 9th-12th centuries; J. Koder: Fresh
vegetables for the capital; G. Dagron: Poissons, pêcheurs et
poisonniers de Constantinople; Section II: Administration: C.
Morrisson: La diffusion de la monnaie de Constantinople: routes
commerciales ou routes politiques?; I. Sevcenko: : Was there
totalitarianism in Byzantium: Constantinople's control over its
Asiatic hinterland in the early 9th century; Section III:
Defence: J.G. Crow: The Long Walls of Thrace; G. Greatrex:
Procopius and Agathias on the defences of the Thoracian
Chersonese; J.D. Howard-Johnston: The siege of Constantinople in
626; J.F. Haldon: Strategies of defence, problems of security:
the garrisons of Constantinople in the middle Byzantine period;
N. Necipoglu: Economic conditions in Constantinople during the
siege of Bayezid I (1395-1402); M. Balard: Constantinople vue par
les témoins du siège de 1453; Section IV: Communications
between capital and hinterland: C. Foss: Nicomedia and
Constantinople; M. Kaplan: L'hinterland relieux de
Constantinople: moines et saints de balieue d'après
l'hagiographie; J. Lefort: Les communications entre
Constantinople et la Bithynie; Section V: Inhabitants, colonists,
conquerors: D. Jacoby: The Jews of Constantinople and their
demographic hinterland; C.A. Maltezou: Venetian habitatores,
burgenses and merchants in Constantinople and its hinterland
(12th-13th centuries); J. Shepard: Constantinople--gateway to the
north: the Russians; Section VI: Manufacture and export: N.
Asgari: The Proconnesian production of architectural elements in
late antiquity, based on evidence from the marble quarries; J.-P.
Sodini: La sculpture médio-byzantine: le marbre en ersatz et tel
qu'en lui-même; R.B. Mason and M. Mundell Mango: Glazed
"Tiles of Nicomedia" in Bithynia, Constantinople and
elsewhere; J. Henderson and M. Mudell Mango: Glass at medieval
Constantinople: preliminary scientific evidence; Section VIII:
Cultural relations: M.-Fr. Auzépy: Les déplacements de
l'empereur dans la ville et ses environs (VIIIe-Xe siècles); D.
Fiessel: Aspects de l'immigration à Constantinople d'après les
épitaphes protobyzantines; I. Hutter: Scriptoria in Bithynia; P.
Karlinn-Hayter: A note on bishops, saints and proximity to
Constantinople; Index.
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