By Ruth Macrides
This quantity within the SPBS sequence makes a striking contribution to our figuring out either one of the facts for trip, and of the realities and perceptions of communications within the Byzantine global. 4 points of shuttle within the Byzantine global, from the sixth to the fifteenth century, are tested: technicalities of commute on land and sea, reasons of commute, international viewers' perceptions of Constantinople, and the illustration of the shuttle adventure in pictures and in written money owed. assets used to light up those features contain descriptions of trips, pilot books, bilingual note lists, shipwrecks, monastic records, yet because the starting paper indicates the diversity of such assets could be a long way wider than usually meant. The members spotlight street and commute stipulations for horses and people, different types of ships and velocity of sea trips, the character of alternate within the Mediterranean, the continuity of pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and attitudes towards go back and forth. styles of communique within the Mediterranean are published via distribution of ceramic reveals, letter collections, and the unfold of the plague.
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In any case, people and things under way over Byzantium's time and space have even in this case, the document could easily have been delivered in view of a March sailing, such as are in fact attested in this period: McCormick, Origins, chap. 15. Between about 650 and 750, only two trips hint at a land leg over any part of Greece in any season. But even these hints are uncertain and, in any case, arose in highly exceptional circumstances: McCormick, Origins, chap. 3. D. ' BF 13 (1988), 47-66, here 51, suspects that tenuous links may have continued between c.
B 119-sup. [gr. 13 There were both larger bireme dromons and also smaller ones, called yaxdat (galeai) by Leo VI; however, virtually nothing can be deduced about the latter. According to Leo VI, and also Nikephoros Ouranos, 12 The following section is based on dozens of pages of research and argument in J. Pryor and E. Jeffreys, The Byzantine navy (forthcoming). 13 Published by A. 'OU Kai napaKOlprupdvou, in Nanmachica partim adhuc inedita (Paris, 1943), 57-68 (hereafter Dain, Nanmachica). J. H.
Did it change in the tenth or eleventh centuries? Where did that geographic mobility take them? And what does it tell about the tenor of Byzantine society and civilisation? D. for whom we have some geographic data beyond the fact of their travel. 65 In nearly half the cases, it was possible to identify a main place of residence prior to their journey (46%; 93 of 234 with geographic data), as the table shows. We even know birthplaces in more than a tenth of the cases (12%; 28 of 234). 64 McCormick, Origins, chap.