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    THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK

    OF THE BYZANTINE CITY

    The Byzantine world contained many important cities throughout its empire. Although it
    was not ‘urban’ in the sense of the word today, its cities played a far more fundamental
    role than those of its European neighbors. This book, through a collection of twenty-four
    chapters, discusses aspects of, and different approaches to, Byzantine urbanism from the
    early to late Byzantine periods. It provides both a chronological and thematic perspective to
    the study of Byzantine cities, bringing together literary, documentary, and archival sources
    with archaeological results, material culture, art, and architecture, resulting in a rich
    synthesis of the variety of regional and sub-regional transformations of Byzantine urban
    landscapes.
    Organised into four sections, this book covers: Theory and Historiography, Geography
    and Economy, Architecture and the Built Environment, and Daily Life and Material
    Culture. It includes more specialised accounts that address the centripetal role of
    Constantinople and its broader influence across the empire. Such new perspectives help
    to challenge the historiographical balance between ‘margins and metropolis,’ and also to
    include geographical areas often regarded as peripheral, like the coastal urban centers of
    the Byzantine Mediterranean as well as cities on islands, such as Crete, Cyprus, and Sicily
    which have more recently yielded well-excavated and stratigraphically sound urban sites.
    The Routledge Handbook of the Byzantine City provides both an overview and detailed
    study of the Byzantine city to specialist scholars, students, and enthusiasts alike and,
    therefore, will appeal to all those interested in Byzantine urbanism and society, as well as
    those studying medieval society in general.

    Nikolas Bakirtzis is an Associate Professor at The Cyprus Institute in Nicosia, Cyprus.


    His research focuses on Byzantine monasticism, medieval cities and fortifications, and the
    island landscapes of the Byzantine, medieval, and early modern Mediterranean. As the Di-
    rector of the Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Labs, he leads research on the materiality
    of medieval and early modern art enhanced through the use of advanced digital and analyti-
    cal methods. His work has received support from the European Commission, the Cyprus
    Research and Innovation Foundation, the Princeton Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, the
    A.G. Leventis Foundation, and the Getty Research Institute.
    Luca Zavagno is an Associate Professor of Byzantine Studies at Bilkent University, Turkey.
    He is the author of many articles and books on the early medieval and Byzantine Mediter-
    ranean. His research focuses on Byzantine urbanism and medieval Mediterranean insular-
    ity. He has been awarded the Dumbarton Oaks Summer Fellowship twice (in 2011 and
    2016) as well as the prestigious Stanley Seeger Fellowship of the Hellenic Studies Center at
    Princeton University (2012), the Newton Mobility Grant (2018), and he has been twice a
    fellowship at Center for Advanced Studies ‘Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and
    the Early Middle Ages’ at the University of Tübingen, Germany (2022 and 2023).
    THE ROUTLEDGE
    HANDBOOK OF THE
    BYZANTINE CITY
    From Justinian to Mehmet II
    (ca. 500 – ca. 1500)

    Edited by Nikolas Bakirtzis and Luca Zavagno


    Designed cover image: Jerusalem on the Madaba Map. Madaba, Jordan.
    Eyal Bartov/Alamy Stock Photo 2BC6KRR.
    First published 2024
    by Routledge
    4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
    and by Routledge
    605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158
    Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa
    business
    © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Nikolas Bakirtzis and Luca
    Zavagno; individual chapters, the contributors
    The right of Nikolas Bakirtzis and Luca Zavagno to be identified as the
    authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual
    chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the
    Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced,
    or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means,
    now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording,
    or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in
    writing from the publishers.
    Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or
    registered trademarks and are used only for identification and explanation
    without intent to infringe.
    British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
    A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Names: Bakirtzis, Nikolas, editor, author. | Zavagno, Luca, editor, author.
    Title: The Routledge handbook of the Byzantine city : from Justinian
    to Mehmet II (ca. 500 - ca.1500) / edited by Nikolas Bakirtzis and
    Luca Zavagno.
    Description: New York : Routledge, 2024. | Series: Routledge history
    handbooks | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
    Identifiers: LCCN 2023032081 (print) | LCCN 2023032082 (ebook) |
    ISBN 9780367196790 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032603568 (paperback) |
    ISBN 9780429203923 (ebook)
    Subjects: LCSH: City and town life--Byzantine Empire--History. |
    Urbanization--Byzantine Empire--History. | Cities and towns--Byzantine
    Empire--History. | Cities and towns, Medieval--Byzantine Empire. | City
    planning--Byzantine Empire--History. | Byzantine Empire--Social life and
    customs. | Byzantine Empire--Social conditions.
    Classification: LCC DF531 .R678 2024 (print) | LCC DF531 (ebook) |
    DDC 949.5/02--dc23/eng/20230826
    LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023032081
    LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023032082

    ISBN: 978-0-367-19679-0 (hbk)


    ISBN: 978-1-032-60356-8 (pbk)
    ISBN: 978-0-429-20392-3 (ebk)
    DOI: 10.4324/9780429203923

    Typeset in Sabon
    by KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd.
    CONTENTS

    List of Illustrations x
    List of Contributors xvii

    Introducing the Byzantine City, its Histories, Ideas and Realities 1


    Nikolas Bakirtzis and Luca Zavagno

    PART I
    Theory and Historiography 15

    1 The Byzantine City and its Historiography 17


    Luca Zavagno

    2 Theorizing Byzantine Urbanity: The City Constituting Memory,


    Memory Constituting the City 37
    Myrto Veikou

    3 The Byzantine City in the Literary Sources 56


    Helen Saradi

    4 Methodologies for Byzantine Urban Studies 73


    Michael J. Decker

    5 Spatial Organization in Late Byzantine Cities (13th–14th Centuries) 91


    Tonia Kiousopoulou

    vii
    Contents

    PART II
    Geographies of the Byzantine City 105

    6 Cities on the Black Sea Coast and the Circumpontic Exchange


    Network (c. 500–700) 107
    Andrei Gandila

    7 The Byzantine ‘City’ in Asia Minor 139


    Ufuk Serin

    8 Insular Urbanism in Byzantium 172


    Luca Zavagno

    9 The City in the Byzantine ‘Italies’ 192


    Enrico Cirelli

    10 Urbanism in Syria and Palestine Between the 7th and 9th Centuries 228
    Ian Randall

    PART III
    Architecture and the Built Environment 245

    11 Domes in the Urban Skyline: The Case of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus
    and its Transformations through Time 247
    Nikolaos Karydis

    12 Fortifications and the Making of the Byzantine City 272


    Nikolas Bakirtzis

    13 Monumentality and the Byzantine City 290


    Maria Cristina Carile

    14 Maintained, Stored and Protected: Water and the Byzantine City 311
    Elisabetta Giorgi

    15 Islamic City, Ottoman City: Byzantine Prousa to Ottoman Bursa 334


    Suna Çağaptay

    16 Two Views of Ports and Maritime Communities in the Byzantine


    Mediterranean: Constantinople and Amalfi 352
    Michael Jones and Matthew Harpster

    17 Alexandria after Antiquity: A City in Transition 368


    Athanasios Koutoupas

    viii
    Contents

    PART IV
    Daily Life, Visual and Material Culture 385

    18 The Arts and the Byzantine City 387


    Ioli Kalavrezou

    19 On Early Byzantine Images of Poleis: Meanings and Messages 405


    Jenny P. Albani

    20 The Consumptive Capital: Commercial Activities and Ceramic


    Finds at Constantinople (ca. 500–1000) 427
    Joanita Vroom

    21 Pera Ianuensium Pulcherrima Civitas Est: Creating a Genoese


    Identity on the Golden Horn (1261–1453) 451
    Mabi Angar

    Index 478

    ix

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