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

by Cyril Mango and Gilbert Dagron

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860784878
• ISBN13: 9780860784876
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.