Archaeology of the Mediterranean During Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-8130-6969-2
Verlag: University Press of Florida

Buch, Englisch, 378 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

Varied approaches to an overlooked time
period in the history and archaeology of the Mediterranean

This
book presents multidisciplinary perspectives on Greece, Corsica, Malta, and
Sicily from the fourth to the thirteenth centuries, an often-overlooked time in
the history of the central Mediterranean.

The research approaches and areas of
specialization collected here range from material culture to landscape
settlement patterns, from epigraphy to architecture and architectural
decoration, and from funerary archaeology to urban fabric and cityscapes.

Topics
covered in these chapters include late Roman villas; the formation of Byzantine
and Islamic settlements in western Sicily; re-use of protohistoric sites in
late antiquity and the middle ages in eastern Sicily; early Christian
landscapes and settlements in Corsica; the transition from late antiquity
through Byzantine rule to Muslim conquest in Malta; trade network trajectories
of the Aegean islands and Crete; and crosscultural interactions in medieval
Greece. Together, these essays show the potential of post-Ancient and
post-Classical archaeology, highlighting missing links between the Roman world
and medieval Byzantium and broadening the horizons of new generations of
archaeologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barba, Angelo Castrorao

Tanasi, Davide

Miccichè, Roberto

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Angelo Castrorao Barba, postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology at the Polish Academy of Sciences, is the author ofLa fine delle ville romane in Italia tra Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo (III–VIII secolo).

Davide Tanasi, professor of history and director of the Institute for Digital Exploration at the University of South Florida, is coeditor of The Maltese Archipelago at the Dawn of History: Reassessment of the 1909 and 1959 Excavations at Qlejgha tal-Bahrija and Other Essays

Roberto Miccichè is research fellow in anthropology at the University of Palermo and courtesy visiting adjunct professor of history at the University of South Florida.