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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.

Travel, Medieval --- Voyage --- Congresses --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- Civilization --- Congresses. --- Description and travel --- Civilisation --- Descriptions et voyages --- Travelers --- Travelers' writings --- History and criticism --- Conferences - Meetings --- Congrès --- Travellers --- Voyagers --- Wayfarers --- Persons --- Voyages and travels --- Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- Travel [Medieval ] --- Travelers - Byzantine Empire - Congresses --- Travelers' writings - History and criticism --- Byzantine Empire - Description and travel - Congresses

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The work known as Pseudo-Kodinos, the fourteenth-century text which is one of two surviving ceremonial books from the Byzantine empire, is presented here for the first time in English translation. With facing page Greek text and the first in-depth analysis in the form of commentary and individual studies on the hierarchy, the ceremonies, court attire, the Blachernai palace, lighting, music, gestures and postures, this volume makes an important new contribution to the study of the Byzantine court, and to the history and culture of Byzantium more broadly. The unique traits of this ceremony book include the combination of hierarchical lists of court officials with protocols of ceremonies; a detailed description of the clothing used at court, in particular, hats and staffs; an account of the functions of the court title holders, a description of the ceremonies of the year which take place both inside the palace and outside; the service of the megas domestikos in the army, protocols for the coronation of the emperor, the promotions of despot, sebastokrator and caesar, of the patriarch; a description of the mourning attire of the emperor; protocol for the reception of a foreign bride in Constantinople all these are analysed here. Developments in ceremonial since the tenth-century Book of Ceremonies are discussed, as is the space in which ceremonial was performed, along with a new interpretation of the ’other palace’, the Blachernai. The text reveals the anonymous authors’ interest in the past, in the origins of practices and items of clothing, but it is argued that Pseudo-Kodinos presents descriptions of actual practice at the Byzantine court, rather than prescriptions.

Middle Ages --- History --- History, Ancient --- Social aspects --- Classical studies.

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Rites and ceremonies --- Byzantine Empire --- Court and courtiers --- Social life and customs --- Courts and courtiers. --- Hofcultuur. --- Manners and customs. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Byzantine Empire. --- Istanbul. --- Rites et cérémonies --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Empire byzantin --- Cour et courtisans --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Early works to 1800. --- Rites and ceremonies - Byzantine Empire - Early works to 1800 --- Byzantine Empire - Court and courtiers - Early works to 1800 --- Byzantine Empire - Social life and customs - Early works to 1800

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