Travel in the Byzantine world papers from the thirty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000 edited by Ruth Macrides

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mccormick, M. Byzantium on the move : imagining a communications history Pryor, J.H. Types of ships and their performance capabilities Gautier Dalche, P. Portulans and the byzantine world Belke, K. Roads and travel in Macedonia and Thrace in the middle and late byzantine period McCabe, A. Horses and horse-doctors on the road Stathakopoulos, D.Ch. Travelling with the plague Koder, J. Maritime trade and the food supply for Constantinople in the middle ages Gunsenin, N. Medieval trade in the sea of Marmara : the evidence of shipwrecks van Doornick, F.jr The byzantine ship at Serce Limani : an example of small - scale maritime commerce with Fatimid Syria in the early eleventh century Kuelzer, A. Byzantine and early post - byzantine pilgrimage to the Holy Land and to mount Sinai Ciggaar, K. Bilingual word lists and phrase lists : for teaching or for travelling ? Berger, A. Sightseeing in Constantinople : Arab travellers, c.900 - 1300 Macrides, R. Constantinople : the crusaders' gaze Angold, M. The decline of Byzantium seen through the eyes of western travellers Brubaker, L. The conquest of space Mullett, In peril on the sea : travel genres and the unexpected