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In recent decades there has been an increasing interest in the study of food and drink in the ancient, Mediaeval and Byzantine worlds and of their supply and consumption. This volume presents selected papers from the biennial conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, which was held at the University of Adelaide, 11-12 July 2003. The theme was food and drink in Byzantium. Published selectively in the present volume, the papers of the conference are augmented by contributions from international scholars. While some papers address the use of food directly (children’s diet, fasting) or tangentially (in love spells), or discuss philosophical approaches towards food (vegetarianism), other papers in this volume examine the topic from another perspective: the role and perception of food and drink – and their consumption – in society. Yet others examine issues of supply (military logistics) and the role it played in shaping Byzantium. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the history of food, in late antique and Byzantine society, in Byzantine rhetoric, in magic in late antiquity and in the Jews in early Byzantium.

Food habits --- Food supply --- Habitudes alimentaires --- Aliments --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Approvisionnement --- Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Ernährung. --- Essgewohnheit. --- Hunger. --- Bankett. --- Byzantinisches Reich. --- Civilization --- Congrès --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia

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During the ninth century the Saracen Arabs, who had been expelled from the caliphate of Spain, became an increasing threat to the Byzantine empire, particularly after they established themselves on the island of Crete. In 904 a Saracen force led by Leo of Tripoli sailed to the northern Aegean, captured Abydos and prepared to assault Constantinople, but then in a sudden change of plan sailed westward and captured Thessaloniki after a brief siege. The defences of the city had been neglected and the last-minute attempts which were made to improve them had little effect. The victors sacked the city for ten days, then departed taking as many prisoners as they could hold on board their ships. One of these prisoners was Kaminiates, who was later set free in an exchange of prisoners. He subsequently wrote a detailed account of the siege. This book presents the Greek text (as established by Gertrud Böhlig, reprinted by permission of the publisher, W. De Gruyter), together with the first English translation, made by David Frendo, and an introduction and notes by David Frendo and Thanos Fotiou.

Thessalonikē (Greece) --- Thessalonike --- Salanik (Greece) --- Salonica (Greece) --- Salonicco (Greece) --- Salonika (Greece) --- Saloniki (Greece) --- Salonique (Greece) --- Sālūnīk (Greece) --- Selânik (Greece) --- Solonika (Turkey) --- Solun (Greece) --- Thessalonica (Greece) --- Thessaloníki (Greece) --- Thessalonique (Greece) --- Thesszaloniki (Greece) --- Θεσσαλονίκη (Greece) --- History --- Tesalónica (Grecia) --- Fuentes. --- Historia --- Selânik (Turkey) --- Greece --- Thessalonikē (Greece) --- Fuentes

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"This collection on Byzantine culture in translation, edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil, examines the practices and theories of translation inside the Byzantine empire and beyond its horizons to the east, north and west. The time span is from Late Antiquity to the present day. Translations studied include hagiography, history, philosophy, poetry, architecture and science, between Greek, Latin, Arabic and other languages. These chapters build upon presentations given at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, convened by the editors at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia on 28-30 November 2014. Contributors include: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Amelia Brown, Penelope Buckley, John Burke, Michael Champion, John Duffy, Yvette Hunt, Maria Mavroudi, Ann Moffatt, Bronwen Neil, Roger Scott, Michael Edward Stewart, Rene Van Meeuwen, Alfred Vincent, and Nigel Westbrook." --

Translating and interpreting --- Literature and culture --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Translation and interpretation --- Translators --- Social aspects --- Translating --- Byzantine Empire --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- Civilization --- Translating and interpreting - Byzantine Empire - Congresses --- Translating and interpreting - Social aspects - Byzantine Empire - Congresses. --- Literature and culture - Byzantine Empire - Congresses --- Byzantine Empire - Civilization - Congresses

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Byzantine literature --- Littérature byzantine --- History and criticism --- Congresses. --- Histoire et critique --- Congrès --- Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- Civilization --- History --- Congresses --- Civilisation --- Histoire --- 949.5 <093> --- 949.5 BYZANTIUM --- Geschiedenis van Byzantium en Griekenland--Historische bronnen --- Geschiedenis van Byzantium en Griekenland --- 949.5 BYZANTIUM Geschiedenis van Byzantium en Griekenland --- 949.5 <093> Geschiedenis van Byzantium en Griekenland--Historische bronnen --- Byzantine literature. --- Civilization. --- Literatur. --- Kunst. --- Bysantinsk litteratur - historia. --- Geschichte. --- Byzantine Empire. --- Byzantinisches Reich. --- Littérature byzantine --- Congrès --- Greek literature, Byzantine --- Greek literature, Medieval and late --- Greek literature --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- Byzantine literature - History and criticism - Congresses --- Scott, Roger --- Byzantine Empire - Civilization - Congresses

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Normans --- Normans. --- Veroveringen. --- Vikingen. --- Eustathius, --- Greece --- Thessalonike (Greece) --- Thessaloniki. --- History.