Gilbert Dagron: 1 book
Constantinople and its Hinterland
Papers from the Twenty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Oxford, April 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
From its foundation, the city of Constantinople dominated the Byzantine world. It was the seat of the emperor, the centre of government and church, the focus of commerce and culture, by far the greatest urban centre; its needs in terms of supplies and defense imposed their own logic on the development...
