2.44 FC – New Approaches to Networks of Byzantium

This research employs Geographic Information System (GIS) methodologies to analyze the spatial relations and operational efficiency of the 9th-century Byzantine fire signaling beacons. Some of these beacon towers still exist in fragmentary archaeological assemblages across central Anatolia, while others currently remain unidentified. The beacon network originated from the Taurus mountains, and ended near Constantinople, ensuring…

Constantine VII’s Book of Ceremonies provides invaluable documentation of Byzantine Constantinople’s imperial processions, detailing customs, attire, participants, and locations. While traditional scholarship has investigated ceremonial topography mostly within the Constantinian Walls (notably A. Berger’s pioneering works in 1989 and 1997), the region between the Constantinian and Theodosian fortifications remains understudied despite its significance in tenth-century…

The Via Egnatia was an important route connecting Constantinople with Dyrrachium throughout the Roman and Byzantine Eras. Despite its importance, little is known about the route due to the lack of detailed studies, especially in the wider context of the Balkan region. Traditional studies of the textual sources portray Imperial control of the route being…