Constantinople and its Hinterland: Papers from the Twenty-seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Oxford, April 1993

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First published 1995 by Ashgate Publishing. 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. Preface by Cyril Mango vii List of Abbreviations ix 1. C. Mango / Introduction 1 Section I: The land and its products 2. C. Mango / The water supply of Constantinople 9 3. J. Durliat / L'approvisionnement de Constantinople 19 4. P. Magdalino / The grain supply of Constantinople, ninth-twelfth centuries 35 5. J. Koder / Fresh vegetables for the capital 49 6. G. Dagron / Poissons, pêcheurs et poissonniers de Constantinople 57 Section II: Administration 7. C. Morrisson / La diffusion de la monnaie de Constantinople: routes commerciales ou routes politiques? 77 8. I. Ševčenko / Was there totalitarianism in Byzantium? Constantinople's control over its Asiatic hinterland in the early ninth century 91 Section III: Defence 9. J. G. Crow / The Long Walls of Thrace 109 10. G. Greatrex / Procopius and Agathias on the defences of the Thracian Chersonese 125 11. J. D. Howard-Johnston / The siege of Constantinople in 626 131 12. J. F. Haldon / Strategies of defence, problems of security: the garrisons of Constantinople in the middle Byzantine period 143 13. N. Necipoğlu / Economic conditions in Constantinople during the siege of Bayezid I (1394-1402) 157 14. M. Balard / Constantinople vue par les témoins du siège de 1453 169 Section IV: Comminications between capital and hinterland 15. C. Foss / Nicomedia and Constantinople 181 16. M. Kaplan / L'hinterland religieux de Constantinople: moines et saints de banlieue d'après l'hagiographie 191 17. J. Lefort / Les communications entre Constantinople et la Bithynie 207 Section V: Inhabitants, colonists, conquerors 18. D. Jacoby / The Jews of Constantinople and their demographic hinterland 221 19. C. A. Maltezou / Venetian 'habitatores', 'burgenses' and merchants in Constantinople and its hinterland (twelfth-thirteenth centuries) 233 20. J. Shepard / Constantinople - gateway to the north: the Russians 243 Section VI: Manufacture and export 21. N. Asgari / The Proconnesian production of architectural elements in late antiquity, based on evidence from the marble quarries 263 22. J.-P. Sodini / La sculpture médio-byzantine: le marbre en ersatz et tel qu'en lui-même 289 23. R. B. Mason and M. Mundell Mango / Glazed 'Tiles of Nicomedia' in Bithynia, Constantinople and elsewhere 313 24. J. Henderson and M. Mundell Mango / Glass at medieval Constantinople: preliminary scientific evidence 333 Section VII: Cultural relations 25. M.-Fr. Auzépy / Les déplacements de l'empereur dans la ville et ses environs (VIIIe-Xe siècles) 359 26. D. Feissel / Aspects de l'immigration à Constantinople d'après les épitaphes protobyzantines 367 27. I. Hutter / Scriptoria in Bithynia 379 28. P. Karlin-Hayter / A note on bishops, saints and proximity to Constantinople 397 Index 411