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.