Description: Travel in the Byzantine World : Papers from the Thirty-Fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000, Hardcover by Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies 2000 (Birmingham, England); Macrides, Ruth J. (EDT), ISBN 0754607887, ISBN-13 9780754607885, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Three of the 16 papers concern individual travellers to Constantinople a conventional interest but others explore the ways and means of travelling, especially sea travel; purposes of travel, especially trade and pilgrimage; attitudes to travel as reflected in images and texts; several shipwrecks; and descriptions of the perils of travel in letters, romances, and hagiography. Among specific topics are horses and horse doctors on the road, Byzantine and early post-Byzantine pilgrimage to the Holy Land and to Mount Sinai, the decline of Byzantine seen through the eyes of western travellers, and the conquest of space. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Travel in the Byzantine World : Papers from the Thirty-Fourth Spr
Number of Pages: 316 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Travel in the Byzantine World : Papers from the Thirty-Fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: General, Essays & Travelogues, Byzantine Empire
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2002
Item Weight: 21.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Travel, History
Author: Ruth Macrides
Item Length: 9.5 in
Series: Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
