Byzantine Epirus : a topography of transformation : settlements of the seventh-twelfth centuries in southern Epirus and Aetoloacarnania, Greece /
Veikou, Myrto.
Byzantine Epirus : a topography of transformation : settlements of the seventh-twelfth centuries in southern Epirus and Aetoloacarnania, Greece / by Myrto Veikou. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 623 pages, [254] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps. - Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 95 . - The Medieval Mediterranean 95. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223257. .
Based on the author's doctoral studies at the universities of Athens and Paris.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- On the remains of Midle Byzantine Epirus -- A Geographical Outline of Byzantine Epirus (seventh–twelfth centuries) -- Architecture -- Dedicatory Inscriptions on or in Buildings -- Monumental Art and Sculpture -- Artefacts -- The Chronology, Typology, Transformation, Networks and Economy of Settlements -- The Geographical Dimension of Settlement: Non-systematic Extensive Survey and the Historicity of Space in Archaeology -- Aspects of the Transformation of Settlement within the Context of the Medieval Mediterranean -- Concluding Remarks -- Sites Inventory -- Material Culture Inventory -- Abstracts of Byzantine Texts Used in Translation in this Work -- Geomorphological Changes in Lowlands caused by Fluvial Sedimentation -- Bibliography -- Index of Sites -- Illustrations.
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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.
9789004227460
10.1163/9789004227460 DOI
2012004207
Excavations (Archaeology)--Epirus (Greece and Albania)
Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Aitolia kai Akarnania.
Architecture, Byzantine--Epirus (Greece and Albania)
Architecture, Byzantine--Greece--Aitolia kai Akarnania.
Land settlement patterns--Epirus (Greece and Albania)
Land settlement patterns--Greece--Aitolia kai Akarnania.
Human ecology--Epirus (Greece and Albania)
Human ecology--Greece--Aitolia kai Akarnania.
Epirus (Greece and Albania)--Antiquities, Byzantine.
Aitolia kai Akarnania (Greece)--Antiquities, Byzantine.
DF901.E6 / V45 2012
949.5302
Byzantine Epirus : a topography of transformation : settlements of the seventh-twelfth centuries in southern Epirus and Aetoloacarnania, Greece / by Myrto Veikou. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 623 pages, [254] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps. - Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 95 . - The Medieval Mediterranean 95. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223257. .
Based on the author's doctoral studies at the universities of Athens and Paris.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- On the remains of Midle Byzantine Epirus -- A Geographical Outline of Byzantine Epirus (seventh–twelfth centuries) -- Architecture -- Dedicatory Inscriptions on or in Buildings -- Monumental Art and Sculpture -- Artefacts -- The Chronology, Typology, Transformation, Networks and Economy of Settlements -- The Geographical Dimension of Settlement: Non-systematic Extensive Survey and the Historicity of Space in Archaeology -- Aspects of the Transformation of Settlement within the Context of the Medieval Mediterranean -- Concluding Remarks -- Sites Inventory -- Material Culture Inventory -- Abstracts of Byzantine Texts Used in Translation in this Work -- Geomorphological Changes in Lowlands caused by Fluvial Sedimentation -- Bibliography -- Index of Sites -- Illustrations.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004227460
10.1163/9789004227460 DOI
2012004207
Excavations (Archaeology)--Epirus (Greece and Albania)
Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Aitolia kai Akarnania.
Architecture, Byzantine--Epirus (Greece and Albania)
Architecture, Byzantine--Greece--Aitolia kai Akarnania.
Land settlement patterns--Epirus (Greece and Albania)
Land settlement patterns--Greece--Aitolia kai Akarnania.
Human ecology--Epirus (Greece and Albania)
Human ecology--Greece--Aitolia kai Akarnania.
Epirus (Greece and Albania)--Antiquities, Byzantine.
Aitolia kai Akarnania (Greece)--Antiquities, Byzantine.
DF901.E6 / V45 2012
949.5302