Byzantine Epirus: A Topography of Transformation. Settlements of the Seventh-Twelfth Centuries in Southern Epirus and Aetoloacarnania, Greece
Much of the past twenty years of scholarship on late-antique and medieval landscapes and settlement has introduced theoretical patterns reflecting meta-narratives of evolution and transition. This book draws on 5 years of archaeological and topographical fieldwork in order to attempt a rereading of Byzantine texts in accordance with recent perceptions of the historicity of space. The result is a fresh interpretation of settlement in Western Greece (Southern Epirus and Aetoloacarnania) from 600 to 1200 AD, springing from a postmodern theoretical background. While representing real progress in the treatment of the Middle Byzantine regions, the book makes an ecological contribution to historical and social studies through a new evaluation of the transformation of medieval settlement as a result of interaction between physical/social space and human agency.
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Contents
1 On the Remains of Middle Byzantine Epirus
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2 A Geographical Outline of Byzantine Epirus SeventhTwelfth Centuries
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Part Two Material Culture
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1 Architecture
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2 Dedicatory Inscriptions on or in Buildings
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3 Monumental Art and Sculpture
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4 Artefacts
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Part Three Habitation
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Concluding Remarks
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Part Five Inventory of 7th12thCentury Sites in Middle Byzantine Southern Epirus
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5I Introduction
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5II The Sites
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Appendices
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II Abstracts of Byzantine Texts Used in Translation in this Work
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III Geomorphological Changes in Lowlands Caused by Fluvial Sedimentation
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Bibliography
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1 The Chronology Typology Transformation Networks and Economy of Settlements
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NonSystematic Extensive Survey and the Historicity of Space in Archaeology
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3 Aspects of the Transformation of Settlement within the Context of the Medieval Mediterranean
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Part Four The Case of Southern Middle Byzantine Epirus
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Index of Middle Byzantine Sites in Southern Epirus and Aetoloacarnania Greece
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Illustrations
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