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The Oxford handbook of Early Christian archaeology / edited by William R. Caraher, Thomas W. Davis, and David K. Pettegrew.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford handbooks online
- Oxford handbooks in archaeology.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Early Christian archaeology
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together expert work by leading scholars of the archaeology of Early Christianity and the Roman world in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The thirty-four contributions to this volume survey Christian material culture and ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in archaeological method, theory, and research. The essays emphasise the link between archaeological fieldwork, methods, and regional and national traditions in constructing our knowledge of the Early Church and Christian communities within the context of the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, and Europe. Three sweeping introductory essays provide historical perspectives on the archaeology of the Early Christian world.
- Contents:
- The Archaeology of Early Christianity: The History, Methods, and State of a Field / William R. Caraher, David K. Pettigrew
- Baptisteries in Ancient Sites and Rites / H. Richard Rutherford
- Baths, Christianity, and Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity / Dallas DeForest
- The Art of the Catacombs / Fabrizio Bisconti
- Visual Rhetoric of Early Christian Reliquaries / Galit Noga-Banai
- An Anarchéologie of Icons / Glenn Peers
- Spolia, its Viewers, and the 'Victory of Christianity' / Jon Michael Frey
- Early Christian Mosaics in Context / Karen C. Britt
- Pottery / R. Scott Moore
- Lamps / Maria Parani
- Statues / Troels Myrup Kristensen
- Archaeology of the Gospels / James F. Strange
- Christian Archaeology in Palestine: the Roman and Byzantine Periods / Joan E. Taylor
- Archaeology of Early Christianity in Egypt / Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
- Syria / Emma Loosley
- Jordan / Robert Schick
- Asia Minor / Peter Talloen
- The Holy Island: An Archaeology of Early Christian Cyprus / Jody Michael Gordon, William R. Caraher
- The Early Christian Archaeology of the Balkans / William Bowden
- Community, Church and Conversion in the prefecture of Illyricum and the Cyclades / Rebecca Sweetman
- The Archaeology of Early Italian Churches in Context, AD 313-569 / Alexandra Chavarría
- The Christianization of Gaul: Buildings and Territories / Bastien Lefebvre
- Constructing Christian Landscapes in the Iberian Peninsula: The Archaeological Evidence (4th-6th centuries) / Alexandra Chavarría
- Britain and Ireland / David Petts
- Incorporating Christian communities in North Africa: Churches as bodies of communal history / Susan T. Stevens
- New Testament Archaeology beyond the Gospels / Thomas Davis
- Armenia / Christina Maranci
- The Catacombs / Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai
- The Church of the East until the 8th century / Stefan R. Hauser
- Amulets and the Ritual Efficacy of Christian Symbols / Rangar Cline
- Martyria / David L. Eastman
- Burials and Human Remains in Early Christian Context / Sherry Fox, Paraskevi Tritsaroli
- Churches / Charles Stewart
- The Archaeology of Early Monastic Communities / Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 7, 2019).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780199369065
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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