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18: - Medieval Travellers to Constantinople Wonders and Wonder

from Part V - Encountering Constantinople

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2022

By
Nike Koutrakou
Edited by
Sarah Bassett
Sarah Bassett
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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Chapter 18,” Medieval Travellers to Constantinople: Wonders and Wonder.” From its very beginnings, in the 330s, Constantinople attracted a steady flow of visitors from around the empire and the territories beyond its borders, travellers who arrived from the cardinal points to experience the city from various stations in life and in myriad ways. Their interactions with the city are the subject of this chapter, which offers an overview of the people who came to the city, their motives for travel, and their perceptions of the capital and the empire of which it was a hub.

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The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople , pp. 295 - 309
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Cantino-Wataghin, G. and Caillet, J-P, eds, ‘Le voyage dans l’Antiquité Tardive: réalités et images’, AntTard 24 (2016).Google Scholar
Ciggaar, K. N., Western Travellers to Constantinople: The West and Byzantium, 962–1204 – Cultural and Political Relations (Leiden, New York, and Cologne, 1996).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Drocourt, N., Diplomatie sur le Bosphore. Les ambassadeurs étrangers à Constantinople, 2 vols (Paris, 2015).Google Scholar
Erdeljan, J., Chosen Places: Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa (Leiden and Boston, 2017).Google Scholar
Lidov, A., ed., New Jerusalems: The Translation of Sacred Spaces (Moscow, 2006).Google Scholar
Macrides, R., ed., Travel in the Byzantine World (Aldershot, 2002).Google Scholar
Majeska, G., Russian Travelers to Constantinople in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (Washington, DC, 1984).Google Scholar
Morrisson, C. and Sodini, J.-P., eds, Constantinople réelle et imaginaire: autour de l’œuvre de Gilbert Dagron (Paris, 2018).Google Scholar
Vin, J. P. A. van der, Travellers to Greece and Constantinople (Istanbul, 1980).Google Scholar

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