Byzantine Greece : microcosm of empire? : papers from the forty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies / edited by Archibald Dunn ; with the assistance of Brian McLaughlin.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Dunn, Archibald, 1953- editor.

McLaughlin, Brian (Historian, Royal Holloway, University of London), editor.

Conference Name:

Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (46th : 2013 : University of Birmingham)

Series:

Publications (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)) ; 20.

Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--History--323-1453--Congresses.

Greece.

Byzantine Empire--History--Congresses.

Byzantine Empire.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

History

Physical Description:

xiii, 334 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

"This volume offers a structured presentation of the progress of research into the internal history of a part of the Byzantine world - Greece - in the centuries before the multiple changes induced or accelerated by the Fourth Crusade. Greece is a large area (several Early and Middle Byzantine provinces), with records, archival, literary, archaeological, architectural, and art-historical, most of which are unequalled in terms of their density and range. This creates opportunities for useful synthesis, and for dialogue with those now engaged in the rewriting, or writing, of the inner history of Byzantium, from Italy to the Caucasus, who have been stimulated by, or involved in, the editing of archives and inscriptions (including sigillographic), and in the publication of monuments, excavations and surveys (for all of which the "Greek space", the elladikê khôra, is a particular, and fertile, focus of activity, as the conference showed). Much of the material presented here can usually only be found in specialised publication, and indeed much in Greek alone. But, properly contextualised, this material about the "Greek space" deserves to be brought into the dialogues or debates at the heart of Byzantine Studies, for instance about the Late Antique "boom", urban life, the "Dark Age", economic change, the nature of the "Byzantine revival", and of social, socio-economic, and ethnic groups. The studies here synthesise such research, enabling the "Greek space" as a case study in the evolution of a significant region to the west of Constantinople, to take its place more fully as a point of reference in such dialogues or debates. Equally, it provides frameworks for archaeologists dealing with Greece from Late Antiquity onwards - and there are now many - with which to engage, and it makes available a rich source of comparative material for those studying the other regions of the Byzantine world, whether historically or archaeologically, in Southeastern Europe, Italy, or Turkey"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The institutional Church in Early Christian Greece / Eirini Zisimou

The Early Byzantine fortress of Velika on the coast of Kissavos, Thessaly / Stavroula Sdrolia, Sophia Didioumi

Urban and rural settlement in Early Byzantine and Attica (4th-7th centuries) Greece in the transitional period / Elli Tzavella

The "Byzantine District" of Gortyn (Crete) and the end of a/the ancient Mediterranean city / Enrico Zanini

Maritime routes in the Aegean (7th-9th centuries): The archaeological evidence / Natalia Poulou-Papadimitriou

The seventh-century restoration of the Acheiropoietos Basilica and its significance for the urban continuity of Thessalonike during the "Dark Age" / Konstantinos Raptis

Some remarks on the "Dark Age" architecture of Hagia Sophia, Thessalonike Urban and rural revival / Sabine Feist

Bridging the Grande Brèche: Rethinking coins, ceramics, Corinth, and commerce in the centuries following AD 500 / Guy Sanders

Byzantine Butrint vis-à-vis "Dark-Age" Athens: A ceramic perspective / Joanita Vroom

The defences of Middle Byzantium in Greece (7th-12th centuries): The flight to safety in town, countryside, and islands / Nikos D. Kontogiannis, Michael Heslop

The demographic and economic history of Byzantine Greece in the longue durée: The contribution of the pollen data / Adam Izdebski

Middle Byzantine Hierissos: Archaeological research at the entrance to Mount Athos Patronage and sacred space / Aikaterini Tsanana

Patronage of religious foundations in Middle Byzantine Greece (867-1204): The evidence of inscriptions and donor portraits / Sophia Kalopissi-Verti

Church-building in the Peloponnese: Reflections of social and economic trends in the countryside in the Middle Byzantine period / Maria Papadaki

Hermits, monks, and nuns on Chalke, a small island of the Dodecanese from Early Christian to Middle Byzantine times The bureaucrat, the bishop, the farmer and the merchant / Maria Sigala

Loving the poor: Charity and justice in Middle Byzantine Greece / Teresa Shawcross

Economic strategies of landowners and peasant farmers during the eleventh and twelfth centuries in Greece / Alan Harvey

The merchant in Middle Byzantine Greece / Maria Gerolymatou.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Byzantine Greece: microcosm of empire?

ISBN:

9781032551968

1032551968

9781032551975

1032551976

OCLC:

1373934584