CONTENTS PROLOGUE Emilia Bakourou 16 BYZANTINE TOWNS Anna Avramea 23 A Byzantine town: The example of Mystras 33 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE: "THE HISTORY OF MYSTRAS" 36 THE FOUNDATION OF A TOWN AM 40 THE LAYOUT OF THE SETTLEMENT A.M 41 FORTIFICATIONS: SECURITY IN THE TOWNS P.P 42 Gates • Walls • Fortified monasteries • Citadels • Soldiers in the town MOVEMENT ABOUT THE TOWN A.M 46 Streets • Diavatica - Faltsogonies • Security - Street maintenance THE WATER-SUPPLY P.K 49 Aqueducts • Cisterns • Water pipes • Fountains THE DRAINAGE SYSTEM L.N 53 Toilets, cess-pits... THE TOWN AS ADMINISTRATIVE CENTRE P.P.-Y.K 54 Secular administration - Palaces • Ecclesiastical administration - Metropolis URBAN HOUSES L.N 60 The houses of Mystras • Functions of the house • The ground floor • Triclinium COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY A.M 64 Commerce at Mystras CRAFTS AND INDUSTRIES A.M 66 An olive-press SOCIAL GATHERINGS A.M 68 The Palace plateau WORSHIP IN THE TOWN L.N.-Y.K.-P.P 70 MONASTERIES • Hagia Sophia • The Pantanassa • Ancillary areas • Brondocheion Monastery • The Peribleptos CHURCHES • The chapels of Mystras BURIALS WITHIN THE WALLS L.N.-P.P.-P.K. 75 Funeral chapels * Hagioi Theodoroi • Hagia Sophia POST-BYZANTINE MYSTRAS Y.K.-L.N 78 Inside the houses of Mystras: An attempted reconstruction E.V 80 BYZANTINE HOUSES L.N 82 THE BYZANTINE TABLE E.V 88 "The creation of a Byzantine town - Care and conservation today" EM.B.P.K 96 Builders - Master-builders - Labourers A.M 101 Quarrymen — Stone masons — Marble-carvers Tilers - Brickworkers Carpenters - Tektones - Sawyers Metalworkers - Blacksmiths - Bronzesmiths - Plasters Painters Mosaicists • Marble-engravers • Glaziers - Plaster-makers Architects — Engineers — Master-craftsmen — Contractors BYZANTIUM AND THE MEDIEVAL WEST Andre Guiiiou isi Byzantium and the West: the experience of the Late Byzantine urban centre of Mystras EM.B.-P.K 138 THE DRESS WORN BY THE INHABITANTS OF MYSTRAS P.K 143 Entries 1-26 P.K.-S.&M.V.-E.K.-A.M.-Y.K 148 ARTISTIC OUTPUT AT MYSTRAS EM.B.-P.K 170 Entries 27-32 EM.B.-P.K 178 BYZANTINE INTELLECTUALS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON WESTERN THOUGHT P.P. 190 Entries 33-34 P.P 196 BIBLIOGRAPHY 200.