548 pp, color figures, pb, articles in Turkish, English and French.
In the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople served not only as an administrative, military, and religious center, but also as one of trade and commerce. The city was selected as the new imperial capital due to its geographical advantages, its vast hinterland, its situation as an ideal vantage point for travel by land and sea, and its safe natural harbors, making it a perfect location for trade. Considering that medieval Anatolia, and especially Constantinople, was located at the center of a broad trade network and was a center of both production and consumption, trade is rightfully a continuing subject matter of Byzantine studies. In addition, since 2004, the Directorate of the Istanbul Archaeological Museums has carried out archaeological research in Üsküdar, Sirkeci, and Yenikapı, as part of the Marmaray and Metro projects. The excavations have revealed spectacular artifacts and new knowledge on Byzantine trade, ship-building technology, and ships and their cargo. In light of harbor excavation results and information accumulated from other ongoing research, it was the right time to re-evaluate trade in Byzantium. New findings and knowledge arising from the Yenikapı excavations, in particular, gave reason to revisit issues of trade in Byzantium again.
The articles collected in this volume derive from papers presented at the Third International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium on “Trade in Byzantium” held in Istanbul on 24–27 June 2013.
Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface - Omer M. Koç
- Editors' Foreword - Paul Magdalino and Nevra Necipoglu
- Opening Speech Zeynep Mercangoz
- Paul Magdalino and Nevra Necipoglu Introduction
1. Commerce And Control
- Sarris, Peter / Merchants, Trade, and Commerce in Byzantine Law From Justinian I to Basil II
- Cheynet, Jean-Claude / Quelques Nouveaux Sceaux de Commerciaires (Some New Seals of Kommerkiarioi)
- Kaplan, Michel / Monks and Trade in Byzantium from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century
- Smyrlis, Kostis / Trade Regulation and Taxation in Byzantium, Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries
2. Commodities And Ceramics
- Koder, Johannes / Salt for Constantinople
- Morrisson, Cecile / Trading in Wood In Byzantium: Exchange and Regulations
- Rotman, Youval / Byzantium and the International Slave Trade in the Central Middle Ages
- Francois, Veronique / A Distribution Atlas of Byzantine Ceramics: A New Approach to the Pottery Trade in Byzantium
- Vroom, Joanita / Byzantine Sea Trade in Ceramics: Some Case Studies in the Eastern Mediterranean (Ca. Seventh-Fourteenth Centuries)
3. Merchants And The Market In Constantinople
- Magdalino, Paul / The Merchant Of Constantinople
- Jacoby, David / Constantinople as Commercial Transit Center, Tenth to Mid-Fifteenth Century
- Pitarakis, Brigitte / The Byzantine Marketplace: A Window onto Daily Life and Material Culture
- Agir, Aygul / Bizans Baskentinde Musluman Tacirler Icin Mimarlik: Mitaton (Architecture for Muslim Merchants in the Byzantine Capital: The Mitaton)
4. Centers And Networks In Anatolia
- Dalanay, Yaman / Communications and Trade in Western Asia Minor During the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Periods: The Case of Ephesos
- Kahyaoglu, Mehmet / Portolan Charts and Harbor Towns in Western Asia Minor Towards the End of the Byzantine Empire
- Kulzer, Andreas / Byzantine Lydia: Some Remarks on Communication Routes and Settlement Places
- Redford, Scott / Caravanserais and Commerce
- Turnator, Ece / Trade and Textile Industry in the State of Nicaea Through the Romance Oflivistros and Rodamne (Thirteenth Century)
- Akisik-Karakullukcu, Aslihan / The Empire of Trebizond in the World-Trade System: Economy and Culture
- Kegis, Murat / Trabzon Imparatoru III. Aleksios'un Khrysoboullosiarma Gore Venediklilerin Trabzon Ticareti Hakkinda Gozlemler (Observations on the Trade of the Venetians with Trebizond, Based on the Chrysobulls of Alexios III, the Emperor of Trebizond)
5. Ships And Harbors: New Archaeological Evidence
- Kocabas, Ufuk - Isil Ozsait-Kocabas - Evren Turkmenoglu - Taner Guler and Namik Kilic / The World's Largest Collection of Medieval Shipwrecks: The Ships of the Theodosian Harbor
- Polat, Mehmet Ali / Yenikapi'nin Yukleriyle Batmis, Gemileri (Yenikapi Shipwrecks Found with their Cargoes)
- Gunsenin, Nergis / Ganos Limanı'ndan Portus Theodosiacus'a (From Ganos Harbor to Portus Theodosiacus)
- Bulgurlu, Vera / Yenikapi'daki Theodosius Limani Kazilarindan Bizans Kursun Muhurleri (Byzantine Lead Seals from the Theodosian Harbor Excavations at Yenikapi)
- Baran Celik, Gulbahar / Yenikapi Theodosius Limani Kazisi Zemberek Bicimli Fibulalari (Crossbow Fibulas from the Yenikapi Theodosian Harbor Excavations)
- Doger, Lale and Harun Ozdas / Adrasan: Ceramic Finds from a Byzantine Shipwreck
- Akyurek, T. Engin / Andriake: The Port of Myra in Late Antiquity
- Uckan, B. Yelda Olcay / Olympos'ta Ticaret (Trade in Olympos)
- Indices
