Byzantine Greece: Microcosm of Empire? (eBook, PDF)

Papers from the Forty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
Redaktion: Dunn, Archibald

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000929478
• Artikelnr.: 68523424

Autorenporträt

Archibald Dunn is Teaching Fellow in Byzantine Archaeology in the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Brian McLaughlin is a freelance editor, writer, and independent scholar of Byzantine history.

Inhaltsangabe

Dunn
Introduction / Part I: Late Antique Greece / 2. Zisimou
The institutional Church in Early Christian Greece / 3. Sdrolia and Didioumi
The Early Byzantine fortress of Velika on the coast of Kissavos
Thessaly / 4. Tzavella
Urban and rural settlement in Early Byzantine Attica (4th-7th centuries) / Part II: Greece in the transitional period / 5. Zanini
The "Byzantine District" of Gortyn (Crete) and the end of a/the ancient Mediterranean city / 6. Poulou-Papadimitriou
Maritime routes in the Aegean (7th-9th centuries): The archaeological evidence / 7. Raptis
The seventh-century restoration of the Acheiropoietos Basilica and its significance for the urban continuity of Thessalonike during the "Dark Age" / 8. Feist
Some remarks on the "Dark Age" architecture of Hagia Sophia
Thessalonike / Part III: Urban and rural revival / 9. Sanders
Bridging the Grande Brèche: Rethinking coins
ceramics
Corinth
and commerce in the centuries following AD 500 / 10. Vroom
Byzantine Butrint vis-à-vis "Dark-Age" Athens: A ceramic perspective / 11. Kontogiannis and Heslop
The defences of Middle Byzantium in Greece (7th-12th centuries): The flight to safety in town
countryside
and islands / 12. Izdebski
The demographic and economic history of Byzantine Greece in the longue durée: The contribution of the pollen data / 13. Tsanana
Middle Byzantine Hierissos: Archaeological research at the entrance to Mount Athos / Part IV: Patronage and sacred space / 14. Kalopissi-Verti
Patronage of religious foundations in Middle Byzantine Greece (867-1204): The evidence of inscriptions and donor portraits / 15. Makris
Art
architecture and the function of a Middle Byzantine church in Thrace / 16. Papadaki
Church-building in the Peloponnese: Reflections of social and economic trends in the countryside in the Middle Byzantine period / 17. Sigala
Hermits
monks
and nuns on Chalke
a small island of the Dodecanese from Early Christian to Middle Byzantine times / Part V: The bureaucrat
the bishop
the farmer and the merchant / 18. Shawcross
Loving the poor: Charity and justice in Middle Byzantine Greece / 19. Harvey
Economic strategies of landowners and peasant farmers during the eleventh and twelfth centuries in Greece / 20. Gerolymatou
The merchant in Middle Byzantine Greece