Studies on the history and topography of Byzantine Constantinople / Paul Magdalino.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Medieval Constantinople -- Aristocratic oikoi in the tenth and eleventh regions of Constantinople -- The maritime neighbourhoods of Constantinople : commercial and residential functions, sixth to twelfth centuries -- Constantine V and the middle age of Constantinople -- Observations on the Nea Ekklesia of Basil I -- Basil I, Leo VI, and the feast of the Prophet Elijah -- The Evergetis fountain in the early thirteenth century : an ekphrasis of the paintings in the cupola -- Constantinopolitana -- The grain supply of Constantinople, ninth-twelfth centuries -- Constantinople and the "exo chorai" in the time of Balsamon -- Constantinople and the outside world -- Pseudo-Kodinos' Constantinople -- Bibliography -- Index.