Table of Contents

Contents: Section I: The water supply of Constantinople, C. Mango; L’approvisionnement de Constantinople, J. Durliat; The grain supply of Constantinople, 9th-12th centuries, P. Magdalino; Fresh vegetables for the capital, J. Koder; Poissons, pêcheurs et poissonniers de Constantinople, G. Dagron; Sectin II: La diffusion de la monnaie de Constantinople: routes commerciales ou routes politiques?, C. Morrisson; Was there totalitarianism in Byzantium? Constantinople’s control over its Asiatic hinterland in the early 9th century, I. Sevcenko; Section III: The Long Walls of Thrace, J. G. Crow; Procopius and Agathias on the defences of the Thracian Chersonese, G. Greatrex; The siege of Constantinople in 626, J. D. Howard-Johnston; Strategies of defence, problems of security: the garrisons of Constantinople in the middle Byzantine period, J. F.Haldon; Economic conditions in Constantinople during the siege of Bayezid I (1394-1402), N. Necipoglu; Constantinople vue par les témoins du siège du 1453, M. Balard; Section IV: Nicomedia and Constantinople, C. Foss; L’hinterland religieux de Constantinople: moines et saints de banlieue d’après l’hagiographie, M.Kaplan; Les communications entre Constantinople et la Bithynie, J. Lefort; Section V: The Jews of Constantinople and their demographic hinterland, D. Jacoby; Venetian habitatores, burgenses and merchants in Constantinople and its hinterland (12th-13th centuries) C.A Maltezou; Constantinople - gateway to the north: the Russians, J. Shepard; Section VI: The Proconnesian production of architectural elements in late antiquity, based on evidence from the marble quarries, N. Asgari; La sculpture médio-byzantine: le marbre en ersatz et tel qu’en lui-même, J.-P. Sodini; Glazed ’Tiles of Nicomedia’ in Bithynia, Constantinople and elsewhere, R. B. Mason and M. M. Mango; Glass and glaze at medieval Constantinople: preliminary scientific evidence, J. Henderson, M. M. Mango; Section VII: Les déplac

About the Author

Cyril Mango, Emeritus, University of Oxford, UK, and Gilbert Dagron, College de France, Paris, France, with Geoffrey Greatrex C. Mango, J. Durliat, P. Magdalino, J. Koder, G. Dagron, C. Morrisson, I. S"evc"enko, J. G. Crow, G. Greatrex, J. D. Howard-Johnston, J. F.Haldon, N. Necipog"lu, M. Balard, C. Foss, M.Kaplan, J. Lefort, D. Jacoby, C.A Maltezou, J. Shepard, N. Asgari, J.-P. Sodini, R. B. Mason, M. M. Mango, J. Henderson, M.-Fr. Auzepy, D. Feissel, I. Hutter, P. Karlin-Hayter.