Archaeology of the Mediterranean during late antiquity and the Middle Ages / edited by Angelo Castrorao Barba, Davide Tanasi, and Roberto Micciché.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Castrorao Barba, Angelo, 1983- editor.

Tanasi, Davide, 1974- editor.

Miccichè, Roberto, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Mediterranean Region.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Mediterranean Region--Civilization.

Mediterranean Region.

Mediterranean Region--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 pages)

Edition:

1.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, [2023]

Summary:

"Varied approaches to an overlooked time period in the history and archaeology of the Mediterranean This book presents multidisciplinary perspectives on Greece, Corsica, Malta, and Sicily from the fourth to the thirteenth centuries, an often-overlooked time in the history of the central Mediterranean. The research approaches and areas of specialization collected here range from material culture to landscape settlement patterns, from epigraphy to architecture and architectural decoration, and from funerary archaeology to urban fabric and cityscapes. Topics covered in these chapters include late Roman villas; the formation of Byzantine and Islamic settlements in western Sicily; re-use of protohistoric sites in late antiquity and the middle ages in eastern Sicily; early Christian landscapes and settlements in Corsica; the transition from late antiquity through Byzantine rule to Muslim conquest in Malta; trade network trajectories of the Aegean islands and Crete; and crosscultural interactions in medieval Greece. Together, these essays show the potential of post-Ancient and post-Classical archaeology, highlighting missing links between the Roman world and medieval Byzantium and broadening the horizons of new generations of archaeologists"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book presents multidisciplinary perspectives on Greece, Corsica, Malta, and Sicily from the fourth to the thirteenth centuries, an often-overlooked time in the history and archaeology of the central Mediterranean"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Angelo Castrorao Barba, Davide Tanasi, and Roberto Micciche

Part I. Greece. Digging in the Dark: The Islands of the Aegean and Crete from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, Late Sixth through Ninth Centuries CE / Natalia Poulou

The Transformation of Crete in Late Antiquity, Sixth-Tenth Centuries CE / Scott Gallimore

Reuse of the Ancient Urban Landscape in Late Antique Athens, Corinth, and Southern Greece / Amelia R. Brown

Medieval Landscape Archaeology in Southern Greece: An Overview and Reassessment / Effie F. Athanassopoulos

Segregation, Integration, and Colonization: Cross-Cultural Interactions in Medieval Greece in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries / Grant Schrama

Part II. The Central Mediterranean

Late Antique and Early Christian Corsica: An Archaeological Overview / Philippe Pergola and Gabriele Castiglia

Late Roman and Byzantine Malta: Tombs, Burial Customs, and Religion / David Cardona

Muslims in Medieval Malta: Epigraphic Evidence from a Cemetery in Rabat / Matt King

Roman Villas in the Territory of Syracuse: An Update / Rosa Lanteri

Roman Villas and Their Afterlife in Sicily: The Case of Piazza Armerina / Michael J. Decker

The Rural Settlement of Contrada Castro (Sicily) between Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages / Angelo Castrorao Barba, Roberto Micciche, Filippo Pisciotta, Claudia Speciale, Carla Aleo Nero, Pasquale Marino, and Giuseppe Bazan

The Afterlife of a Sicilian Middle Bronze Age Cemetery: The Reuse of Cozzo del Pantano (Siracusa) / Davide Tanasi

Arched Blind Niches in Medieval Rupestrian Architecture in Southern Italy / Santino Alessandro Cugno and Franco Dell'Aquila.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-7045-7

OCLC:

1356894455