Recent Research on the Late Antique Countryside

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

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Book

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xxvi, 598 pp. 110 illus.

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BRILL

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English

Biographical note

Luke A. Lavan, Ph.D. (2001) in Archaeology, University of Nottingham is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.

William Bowden, Ph.D. (2000) in Archaeology, University of East Anglia, is Packard Research Fellow in the School of World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia and a co-director of excavations at Butrint, Albania.

Carlos Machado is a doctoral student in Ancient History, Linacre College at Oxford University, funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Science (CNPQ). He is working on the political use of space in late antique Rome, and the appropriation of urban space by the aristocracy, the church and the imperial court.

Readership

It will be up-to-date and essential reading for anyone studying late antique or early medieval archaeology and history and will interest also Roman and Byzantine archaeologists.

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
The Late Antique Countryside: An Introduction William Bowden and Luke Lavan

Part One: Bibliographic Essay
Archaeological Research on the Late Antique Countryside: A Bibliographic Essay Alexandra CHavarria& Tamara Lewit

Part Two: Economic and Social Life
Rehabilitating the Great Estate: Aristocratic Property and Economic Growth in the Late Antique East Peter Sarris
Epigraphic Data on Village Culture and Social Institutions: an Interregional Comparison (Syria, Phoenice Libanensis and Arabia) Frank R. Trombley

Part Three: Sacred Landscapes
The Fate of Rural Temples in Late Antiquity and the Christianisation of the Countryside Beatrice Caseau
The Archaeology of Pilgrimage in Late Antique Albania: The Basilica of the Forty Martyrs John Mitchell

Part Four: Recent Rural Survey in Turkey and Adjacent Regions
Valley and Village in Late Roman Cyprus Marcus Rautman
Settlement Expansion on the Konya Plain, Anatolia: 5th-7th Centuries A.D. Douglas Baird
Late Antiquity in the Territory of Sagalassos Hannelore Vanhaverbeke, Femke Martens, Marc Waelkens& Jeroen Poblome
Late Antique Pottery, Settlement and Trade in the East Mediterranean: A Preliminary Comparison of Ceramics from Limyra (Lycia) and Boeotia Joanita Vroom

Part Five: Villas in Late Antiquity
Residential Villas in Late Antique Italy: Continuity and Change Carla Sfameni
Late Roman Villas in Late Antique Italy: Continuity and Change Carla Sfameni
Late Roman Villa Plans: The Danube-Balkan Region Lynda Mulvin

Part Six: Rural Monasteries
Monastic Landscapes Joseph Patrich
Monasteries as Rural Settlements: Patron-dependence or Self-sufficiency? Beat Bank

Part Seven: Landscape Change from Gaul to the Balkans
A de-Romanised Landscape in Northen Gaul: The Scarpe Valley from the 4th to 9th Century AD Etienne Louis
Late Antique Settlement on the Plain of Verona Fabio Saggioro
Continuity and Change in the Macedonian Countryside, from Gallienus to Justian Archie Dunn

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The Archaeology of Late Antique 'Paganism'

Edited by Luke Lavan and Michael Mulryan

This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines the archaeology of 'paganism' in late antiquity. Papers explore the end of the temples, the nature of ritual deposits, the fate of religious statues and the iconography in material culutre. These are ...

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Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity

Edited by David M. Gwynn and Susanne Bangert. Conceived and Co-ordinated by Luke Lavan. With the Assistance of Carlos Machado and Michael Mulryan

This volume in the ongoing Late Antique Archaeology series draws on material and textual evidence to explore the diverse religious world of Late Antiquity. Subjects include Jews and Samaritans, orthodoxy and heresy, pilgrimage, stylites, magic, the sacred and the secular.

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Objects in Context, Objects in Use

Edited by Luke Lavan, Ellen Swift and Toon Putzeys

This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines material spatiality in late antiquity. Synthetic papers drawing on archaeological, art-historical and textual sources, are complemented by case-studies of sites, an introductory essay, and several ...

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Technology in Transition A.D. 300-650

Edited by Luke Lavan, Enrico Zanini and Alexander Sarantis

This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines technology in late antiquity. Papers explore agriculture, production, engineering and building technologies, and include a bibliographic essay.

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Housing in Late Antiquity - Volume 3.2

Edited by Luke Lavan, Lale Özgenel and Alexander Sarantis

This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines the housing in the late antique period, through thematic and regional syntheses, complemented by cases studies and two bibliographic essays.

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Social and Political Life in Late Antiquity - Volume 3.1

Edited by William Bowden, Adam Gutteridge and Carlos Machado

This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines the social and political structures of the late antique period and the ways in which they are manifested in the archaeological and textual record.

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Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology

Edited by Luke Lavan and William Bowden

This volume explores the theoretical frameworks, methodology and field practice suited to late antique archaeology. It considers broad themes such as social life, the economy, topography and long-term change, but also engages fully with the specific historical issues and evidential problems of ...