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ITS HINTERLAND
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CONSTANTINOPLE AND
ITS HINTERLAND
Papers from the Twenty-seventh Spring Symposium of
Byzantine Studies, Oxford, April 1993
Edited by Cyril Mango and Gilbert Dagron
with the assistance of Geoffrey Greatrex
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Contents
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 Constantino-
ple: routes commerciales ou routes
politiques? 77
8. I. Sevcenko 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. Necipoglu Economic conditions in Constantinople
during the siege of Bayezid I (1394-1402) 157
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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 architec-
tural 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 Glazed 'Tiles of Nicomedia' in Bithynia,
M. Mundell Mango Constantinople and elsewhere 313
24. J. Henderson and Glass at medieval Constantinople:
M. Mundell Mango 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
Preface
The papers collected in this volume were presented at the twenty-seventh
Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held at Oxford 2-6 April 1993 under
the Honorary Presidency of H.M. Queen Sophia of Spain. As invariably
happens on such occasions the organisers' initial intentions could not be
fully translated into the published product. Some invited speakers were
unable to come; others chose to withhold their contributions for further con-
sideration or publish them elsewhere; certain topics designated for treatment
found no interpreters. We can only hope that this volume will prove both
useful and stimulating while assuring critics that we are not unaware of
the lacunae they are likely to identify.
Along with the main papers, four of the shorter communications (by M.-
F. Auzépy, G. Greatrex, J. Koder and N. Necipoglu) are included here.
Summaries of the others may be found in the Bulletin of British Byzantine
Studies, 20 (1994). The Symposium was accompanied by two exhibitions:
one, The Byzantine Bridge between East and West: Manufacture and
Trade AD 300-1453', was organised by Marlia Mundell Mango, the other
of Greek manuscripts in Christ Church, 'Manuscripts from the Hinterland
of Constantinople', was organised by Irmgard Hutter. Thanks to Francis
Warner it was also possible to present a performance of his play 'Byzantium'
in Exeter College Chapel.
It is our pleasant duty to thank in addition the following persons and
institutions:
H.M. the Queen of Spain for accepting the Honorary Presidency of the
Symposium even if, unfortunately, she was unable to be present.
The British Academy, the Hulme Fund of Oxford University and the
Faculties of Literae Humaniores and Modern History and the Society for
the Promotion of Byzantine Studies for grants towards the cost of the
Symposium.
The Collège de France and CNRS, Paris for grants covering the costs of
the French participants.
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The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages for providing premises
in the Taylorian Institution and Exeter College for accommodation for the
participants at less than market rates.
The A.G. Leventis Fund, Marchessini and Co and Parfums Rochas for
grants towards the exhibition The Byzantine Bridge'; to the Eastern Art
Department of the Ashmolean Museum for providing exhibition space; to
the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Oxford University
Museum of Natural History, the Musée du Louvre, the Cabinet des Médailles
of the Bibliothèque Nationale, and the Library of St Andrews University
for the loan of objects; Christine Hazelwood, loanna Christoforaki and Ida
Johanson for help in mounting the exhibition.
Christ Church and the Maison Française, Oxford for providing receptions.
Geoffrey Greatrex, Theodora Antonopoulou, Barbara Crostini and Benet
Salway for acting as assistants.
Marlia Mundell Mango for help in all aspects of the organisation of the
Symposium.
Dr Greatrex for his invaluable help in editing this volume.
Cyril Mango
Oxford, November 1994
