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The oxford history of Byzantium
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ISBN: 0198140983 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford ; New York University Press


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Greek icons, 14th-18th century: the Rena Andreadis collection
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ISBN: 8881189631 Year: 2002 Publisher: Milano Skira

Byzantine garden culture
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ISBN: 0884022803 9780884022800 Year: 2002 Publisher: Washington (D.C.): Dumbarton Oaks research library and collection,

The economic history of Byzantium : from the seventh through the fifteenth century
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ISBN: 0884022889 9780884022886 Year: 2002 Volume: 39 Publisher: Washington (D.C.): Dumbarton Oaks research library and collection,

Konstantinopel und Damaskus : Gesandschaften und Verträge zwischen Kaisern und Kalifen 639-750 : Untersuchungen zum Gewohnheits-Völkerrecht und zur interkulturellen Diplomatie
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ISBN: 3879972605 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berlin Schwarz

Travel in the Byzantine world : papers from the thirty-fourth spring symposium of Byzantine studies, Birmingham, April 2000
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ISBN: 0754607887 9780754607885 Year: 2002 Volume: 10 Publisher: Aldershot: Ashgate,

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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.

Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit.. 1. Abteilung, 641-867
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ISBN: 3110151790 3110166720 3110162970 3110166739 3110166747 3110166755 3110174561 9783110166743 9783110166750 9783110174564 9783110162974 9783110166736 9783110151794 9783110166729 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter,

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