The Routledge Handbook of the Byzantine City: From Justinian to Mehmet II (ca. 500 - ca.1500) (Routledge History Handbooks)

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Title Page
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introducing the Byzantine City, its Histories, Ideas and Realities
PART I: Theory and Historiography
	1. The Byzantine City and its Historiography
	2. Theorizing Byzantine Urbanity: The City Constituting Memory, Memory Constituting the City
	3. The Byzantine City in the Literary Sources
	4. Methodologies for Byzantine Urban Studies
	5. Spatial Organization in Late Byzantine Cities (13th–14th Centuries)
PART II: Geographies of the Byzantine City
	6. Cities on the Black Sea Coast and the Circumpontic Exchange Network (c. 500–700)
	7. The Byzantine ‘City’ in Asia Minor
	8. Insular Urbanism in Byzantium
	9. The City in the Byzantine ‘Italies’
	10. Urbanism in Syria and Palestine Between the 7th and 9th Centuries
PART III: Architecture and the Built Environment
	11. Domes in the Urban Skyline: The Case of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus and its Transformations through Time
	12. Fortifications and the Making of the Byzantine City
	13. Monumentality and the Byzantine City
	14. Maintained, Stored and Protected: Water and the Byzantine City
	15. Islamic City, Ottoman City: Byzantine Prousa to Ottoman Bursa
	16. Two Views of Ports and Maritime Communities in the Byzantine Mediterranean: Constantinople and Amalfi
	17. Alexandria after Antiquity: A City in Transition
PART IV: Daily Life, Visual and Material Culture
	18. “The Arts and the Byzantine City”
	19. On Early Byzantine Images of Poleis: Meanings and Messages
	20. The Consumptive Capital: Commercial Activities and Ceramic Finds at Constantinople (ca. 500–1000)
	21. Pera Ianuensium Pulcherrima Civitas Est: Creating a Genoese Identity on the Golden Horn (1261–1453)
Index