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Travel in the Byzantine World - Papers from the Thirty-Fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Travel in the Byzantine World - Papers from the Thirty-Fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
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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.
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